45 Quotes by Robert Scheer

A gym is a great source of activities for children. But it can also be a solid operational revenue source. It can be rented out for events, which in turn encourages businesses to sponsor teams, shirts and other activities.

All they are proving is their ability to manipulate, to think superficially, and to exploit national security issues rather than deal with them.

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.