Robert Scheer Quotes

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• The death of American liberalism as a significant moral force can be traced to the point in when President Bill Clinton signed legislation that effectively ended the main federal anti-poverty program and turned the fate of welfare recipients, 70 percent of whom were children, over to the tender mercies of the states. With a stroke of the pen, Clinton eliminated what remained of New Deal-era compassion for the poor and codified into law the "tough love" callousness that his Republican allies in the Congress, led by Newt Gingrich, had long embraced.

  Robert Scheer

  Children, Fate, Compassion

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• The fact is ... that when totalitarian nations like China and Saudi Arabia play ball with U.S. business interests, we like them just fine. But when Venezuela's freely elected president threatens powerful corporate interests, the Bush administration treats him as an enemy.

  Robert Scheer

  Powerful, Play, Enemy

  Robert Scheer (2006). “Playing President: My Close Ecounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clinton--and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush”, p.297, Akashic Books

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• Today anyone on the Internet can find out more about what you read, think, and earn than the secret police of Stalin or Hitler could have learned.

  Robert Scheer

  Thinking, Police, Secret

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• I happen to love America. I love this freedom and democracy. The fact is we are the ones who killed innocent people, men, women and children, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons, weapons that should have never been used, should have never been developed in the first place, you know?

  Robert Scheer

  Children, Men, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The publisher, Jeff Johnson, who has offered not a word of explanation to me, has privately told people that he hated every word that I wrote. I assume that mostly refers to my exposing the lies used by President Bush to justify the invasion of Iraq. Fortunately sixty percent of Americans now get the point, but only after tens of thousand of Americans and Iraqis have been killed and maimed as the carnage spirals out of control. My only regret is that my pen was not sharper and my words tougher.

  Robert Scheer

  Regret, Lying, Iraq

  "On Leaving the LA Times". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.

  Robert Scheer

  Umpires, Pants, Journalism

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• At least 3% of the signers of the Constitution must have been gay, since that's the low estimate for any population sample. It was probably higher, given that they were a pretty talented bunch and wore wigs.

  Robert Scheer

  Gay, Population, Wigs

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• If the war on terror is endless, you could forget about democracy.

  Robert Scheer

  War, Democracy, Forget

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.

  Robert Scheer

  Paper, Prize

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• Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money.

  Robert Scheer

  Groups, Appeals, Interest

  "Nothing Prepared Me for Bush". Interview with Onnesha Roychoudhuri, www.alternet.org. April 27, 2006.

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• I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

  Robert Scheer

  Reporters

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• Everybody says, "Well, if it's a democracy, let them have nuclear weapons." America is the only country that has ever used nuclear weapons. We're the only ones, this democracy, our great democracy.

  Robert Scheer

  Country, America, Democracy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I was able to do something that people cant do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job.

  Robert Scheer

  Jobs, Numbers, People

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• The journalist's job is to get the story by breaking into their offices, by bribing, by seducing people, by lying, by anything else to break through the palace guard.

  Robert Scheer

  Jobs, Lying, Media

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• He [Reagan] likes to tell jokes and that's why he told the ethnic joke that got him into some trouble. Perhaps if reporters didn't overreact to a politician's telling the very same joke they routinely hear and tell in the city room, we'd get more humor.

  Robert Scheer

  Cities, Likes, Rooms

  Robert Scheer (2006). “Playing President: My Close Ecounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clinton--and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush”, p.77, Akashic Books

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• Alternative media is no longer really alternative, and we're no longer that dependant upon newspapers, like the Los Angeles Times, for our information.

  Robert Scheer

  Media, Information, Alternatives

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there.

  Robert Scheer

  Fire, Voice, People

  "LA Times Fires Longtime Progressive Columnist Robert Scheer". "Democracy NOW!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. November 14, 2005.

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• I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

  Robert Scheer

  Teaching, College, Usc

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• It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it.

  Robert Scheer

  Running, Strong, War

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• Richard Nixon even before becoming president, before meeting Henry Kissinger, he said, "This is ridiculous. Communism is nationalist. The Chinese and Russian and Yugoslav and Cuban and - none of these communists get along, and the Koreans and the Vietnamese, and we can do business with them." And then he opened up to China, and that's when the Cold War started.

  Robert Scheer

  War, Chinese, President

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him.

  Robert Scheer

  Honest, Dean, Hung

  "'Nothing Prepared Me for Bush'". Interview with Onnesha Roychoudhuri, www.alternet.org. April 27, 2006.

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• We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

  Robert Scheer

  Media, People, Insulting

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• The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

  Robert Scheer

  Book, Issues, Reform

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• I think it's very important to follow the lead of the South Koreans and the Chinese and not back North Korea even further into a corner, because that's when they'll be dangerous.

  Robert Scheer

  Thinking, Korea, Chinese

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The great enemy of any totalitarian regime is normalization and trade.

  Robert Scheer

  Enemy, Regimes, Trade

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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