Sidney Blumenthal Quotes

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

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

On page 605, Blumenthal says that 'I made friends with Hitchens's friends the novelists Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie.' True in its way. I particularly remember the occasion when he called me up and invited me to dinner with Dick Morris, but only on condition that I brought Rushdie (who was staying in my house) along with me. No Rushdie: no invitation. So I never did get to meet Dick Morris. ~ Christopher Hitchens

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

It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book. ~ 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

On page 603 it is stated that at first Blumenthal could not remember the lunch with me and my wife at which he had loudly impugned two female witnesses against Clinton. This makes it distinctly odd that he should have such have a vivid and detailed but mistaken recollection of the same lunch on page 607. ~ Christopher Hitchens

Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy. ~ Sidney Blumenthal

The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care. ~ Sidney Blumenthal

But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House. ~ 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

If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. ~ Algernon Sidney

For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor. ~ Philip Sidney

Do you always throw your money away like this?"
"Only when I'm in love, ~ Sidney Sheldon

I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place. ~ Sidney Poitier

'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back. ~ Steven Spielberg

His song was only living aloud,
His work, a singing with his hand! ~ Sidney Lanier

the commencement speaker. The billionaire founder ~ Karen Blumenthal

I think that everyone has an equal right to play and I think we've been supportive of that. With the Olympics and the controversy around that I think those decisions and those laws aren't necessarily something that I agree with personally ... their laws and their views. ~ Sidney Crosby

It will be a honeymoon,Demiris told her.She got the honeymoon but not the wedding. ~ Sidney Sheldon

Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them. ~ Philip Sidney

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. ~ Sidney Lanier

One and one make 2. But if you bring 1 and 1 close together they make 11. ~ Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield

I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I'm all show business! ~ George Sidney

I think as a Canadian hockey player, you go through it in your mind so many times, being able to stand on that blue line and hear your national anthem play and being a gold medal champion, you dream of that. And then to be able to accomplish that and actually win a gold medal and represent your country its an amazing feeling. ~ Sidney Crosby

My wife collects knickknacks. ~ Sidney Poitier

When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor. ~ Lee Grant

I would like to grow less afraid of dying. I am infinitely less afraid today than I was 15 or 25 years ago. I was most afraid of dying when I was 33, because I come from a Catholic family. ~ Sidney Poitier

I haven't seen American Sniper, but correct me if I'm wrong: An occupier mows down faceless Iraqis but the real victim is his anguished soul. ~ Max Blumenthal

All cities have a certain fascination that is lost with too intimate a knowledge. ~ Sidney Dark

I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste. ~ Sidney Poitier

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story. ~ Sidney Sheldon

In the end, each of us is alone, but in the meantime, we must all huddle together to give one another comfort and warmth. ~ Sidney Sheldon

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself. ~ Philip Sidney

Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability. ~ Sidney Hook

Don't seek to be a person of fame, for even villains can be famous. Instead, be a person of value. Fame fades but value is honored. ~ Sidney Mohede

If we want a spaceship built or the distance of a star measured, we call in the experts. But when we want something really important done, we collect twelve ordinary folks to do it. As I recall, the founder of Christianity did the same thing. ~ Sidney Sheldon

We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us. ~ Philip Sidney

You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important. ~ Sidney Sheldon

If chicken is sex then this is the best orgasm ever. ~ Sidney Ayers

The sun is a-wait at the ponderous gate of the West. ~ Sidney Lanier

I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues. ~ Philip Sidney

It depends on education
that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands
to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery. ~ Philip Sidney

Sidney was beginning to feel uncomfortable. As a priest he was used to informal confession, but he could never quite reconcile himself to the fact that it often contained quite a lot of detail. There were times when he wished people wouldn't tell him so much. ~ James Runcie

Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am going to try it; and am going to test, in the most rigid way I know, the awful question whether it is my vocation. ~ Sidney Lanier

There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken more seriously worldwide. ~ Heston Blumenthal

Bradley Cooper was an asshole, but he was - like Sidney Lumet, like George Clooney - the nicest guy in the world. I sound like the biggest ass-kisser ever. But I'm telling the truth, I swear to God! ~ Peter Jacobson

Liars need to have good memories. ~ Algernon Sidney

The Lesbian is one of the least known members of our culture. Less is known about her - and less accurately - than about the Newfoundland dog. ~ Sidney Abbott

He took a step closer. "Think about it this way, Sidney. You have to walk down the aisle next to me
at this wedding. We'll be in numerous photos together - photos that the entire Sinclair family will
look at for years to come. If my job as a groomsman is to complement you, do you really want to put
your faith in whatever I might come up with?"
She considered this for a moment.
"Let me just grab my purse. ~ Julie James