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February 15th, 2012 Author Types, Authors, Journalist, S No Comments »

Sidney Blumenthal

22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush.
Sidney Blumenthal

And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.
Sidney Blumenthal

Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.
Sidney Blumenthal

At the same time, Clinton was doing a lot things right, like the economy.
Sidney Blumenthal

Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems.
Sidney Blumenthal

Clinton was very early on aware of the problem of international terrorism.
Sidney Blumenthal

Dick Clarke, who was head of counter-terrorism in the National Security Council, pushed constantly for the Principals Committee, which is the key national security group of top officials to take up the issue of terrorism.
Sidney Blumenthal

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.
Sidney Blumenthal

It wasn’t simply that Clinton created the greatest prosperity in the country’s history. Or that we created 22 million new jobs, more than ever before. Under Clinton, poverty was reduced 25%.
Sidney Blumenthal

On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration’s complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.
Sidney Blumenthal

The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever.
Sidney Blumenthal

What happened to the Bush Administration regarding terrorism is that they regarded it as a secondary issue, and associated with Clinton. One of those Clinton issues.
Sidney Blumenthal

It’s absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them.
Sidney Blumenthal

On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.
Sidney Blumenthal

The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.
Sidney Blumenthal

We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the millennium bombings.
Sidney Blumenthal

Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House.
Sidney Blumenthal

If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn’t let Louie Freeh off the hook.
Sidney Blumenthal

As I said, if you don’t stand up for yourself, people aren’t going to think that you can stand up for them.
Sidney Blumenthal

The Democrats need to remind people of where were, in terms of our progress, as markers against where we are, and where we’ve fallen, and how we’ve declined under Bush.
Sidney Blumenthal

But presidents matter. That’s one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.
Sidney Blumenthal

Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.
Sidney Blumenthal

February 8th, 2012 Author Types, Authors, J, Journalist No Comments »

Jayson Blair

If they’re all so brilliant and I’m such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn’t catch me?
Jayson Blair

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.
Jayson Blair

 

February 2nd, 2012 A, Author Types, Authors, Journalist No Comments »

Alice Stone Blackwell

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.
Alice Stone Blackwell

A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.
Alice Stone Blackwell

 

January 27th, 2012 Author Types, Authors, Journalist, N No Comments »

Nellie Bly

I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow.
Nellie Bly

How can a doctor judge a woman’s sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.
Nellie Bly

I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly – a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God’s creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.
Nellie Bly

All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one’s mind. After several months’ confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate.
Nellie Bly

In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and grapes and all kinds of fruits, beautiful white bread and nice meats, and the hungry feeling would be increased tenfold.
Nellie Bly

Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell’s Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.
Nellie Bly

I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it.
Nellie Bly

On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.
Nellie Bly

People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of.
Nellie Bly

It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.
Nellie Bly

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
Nellie Bly

I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded.
Nellie Bly

Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning.
Nellie Bly

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.
Nellie Bly

I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God’s sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving.
Nellie Bly

January 22nd, 2012 Author Types, Authors, Journalist, V No Comments »

Victoria Billings

Sexual liberation, as a slogan, turns out to be another kind of bondage. For a woman it offers orgasm as her ultimate and major fulfillment; it’s better than motherhood.
Victoria Billings

The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.
Victoria Billings

Constant togetherness is fine – but only for Siamese twins.
Victoria Billings

There is no such thing as being too independent.
Victoria Billings

 

December 27th, 2011 Author Types, Authors, C, Journalist No Comments »

Carl Bernstein

The lowest form of popular culture – lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives – has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
Carl Bernstein

The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.
Carl Bernstein

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
Carl Bernstein

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.
Carl Bernstein

 

December 20th, 2011 Author Types, Authors, J, Journalist No Comments »

Jeffrey Bernard

But you’ve got to have money for comfort, which obviously doesn’t matter as much when you’re young, but even so. I always like to bloody eat well and be warm. Have a drink when I want it.
Jeffrey Bernard

I don’t remember ever being full of dislike and hatred for people, like some kids I’ve come across now.
Jeffrey Bernard

A lot of girls annoy me who go to university – one girl told me she was going to Oxford because it was something to do between leaving school and getting married. And I’ve got to pay for that being an income tax payer.
Jeffrey Bernard

I enjoy doing nothing.
Jeffrey Bernard

One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.
Jeffrey Bernard

The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose.
Jeffrey Bernard

I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.
Jeffrey Bernard

Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.
Jeffrey Bernard

There’s nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.
Jeffrey Bernard

It’s not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don’t forget things like that.
Jeffrey Bernard

One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative – and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.
Jeffrey Bernard

Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their lives.
Jeffrey Bernard

June 25th, 2011 Author Types, Authors, E, Journalist No Comments »

Edmund Clerihew Bentley

The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley

May 15th, 2011 Author Types, Authors, G, Journalist No Comments »

Glenn Beck

No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.
Glenn Beck

Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution, and it was designed to eat the Constitution, to progress past the Constitution.
Glenn Beck

Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.
Glenn Beck

The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn’t hijack it. And it’s because we’re afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we’re alone. We’re not.
Glenn Beck

And I’ve come to the place where I believe that there’s no way to solve these problems, these issues – there’s nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that’s a pretty tall order.
Glenn Beck

It’s not just spending, it’s not just taxes, it’s not just corruption, it is progressivism, and it is in both parties. It is in the Republicans and the Democrats.
Glenn Beck

Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice – that is the essence. And if it’s not the essence, then we’ve been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot – the content of character, not the color of skin.
Glenn Beck

Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are.
Glenn Beck

Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative.
Glenn Beck

‘Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I’m addicted to spending and big government.’ I’d like one of them just to stand up and say that.
Glenn Beck

I am a conservative, but I am not a zombie.
Glenn Beck

The message that I gave on the – on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don’t believe that you can’t do it. Everybody wants – everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I’m not talking politics.
Glenn Beck

When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?
Glenn Beck

You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one – I can’t speak for you, but I’m on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show.
Glenn Beck

Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.
Glenn Beck

Political Correctness doesn’t change us, it shuts us up.
Glenn Beck

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There’s no understanding of it.
Glenn Beck

You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I’ve made lots of money making fun of me.
Glenn Beck

Americans also don’t need to be taught how to give. We don’t need to be taught how to take care of each other or how to be charitable.
Glenn Beck

It’s a real blessing for me to tell you, sir, that calvary has arrived – Fox is here!
Glenn Beck

Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung over for four hours in America – and it’s shaping up to be a nasty day, but its still morning in America.
Glenn Beck

May 4th, 2011 Author Types, Authors, Journalist, P No Comments »

Paul Begala

I try hard to be a good Catholic.
Paul Begala

Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history – now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history.
Paul Begala

My view was that the campaign had been a sacred thing, that it had been a real compact, because I was there and I saw the connection that Clinton made with people, and the connection that they made with him.
Paul Begala

Never interrupt your opponent when he’s destroying himself.
Paul Begala

I’m very sunny. You know, I’m always optimistic.
Paul Begala

One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics.
Paul Begala

Again and again, I’ve seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies – assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged.
Paul Begala

Bush began helping Enron in the eighties.
Paul Begala

I grew up in Tom DeLay’s district.
Paul Begala

Politics is show business for ugly people.
Paul Begala

See, I think if it just became who’s sleeping with whom, then there’s no reason to prefer one party over the other, ’cause the truth is we’re all sinners.
Paul Begala

If George W. Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal judiciary, he and his allies are likely to embark on a campaign of political retribution the likes of which we haven’t seen since Richard Nixon.
Paul Begala

But I think what happened was that Clinton knew how to fight back. And the way he fought back was on the issues – being tough in staying on the things that mattered to people in their lives.
Paul Begala

Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who’s gonna’ win it.
Paul Begala

I don’t like being a voyeur, looking into other people’s marriages.
Paul Begala

So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored.
Paul Begala

There’s the great line: the definition of a liberal is someone who’s afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that’s my problem with my fellow liberals.
Paul Begala

This gets back to the fundamental lesson of political survival that Bill Clinton taught me, which is if you make it about the American people’s lives instead of your life, you’re going to be okay.
Paul Begala

It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam.
Paul Begala

Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win.
Paul Begala

Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He had no effect on national policy at all.
Paul Begala