42 Quotes by Sidney Blumenthal

It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.

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