Latest Robert Scheer Quotes from Interviews

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• George W. Bush is a person who is totally disinterested in the world, uneducated. I'm not saying he's stupid. I don't think he's stupid. He's crafty as hell, but he projects well on television. And that's the real big problem. He is the perfect "what, me worry?" president.

  Robert Scheer

  Real, Stupid, Thinking

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• We've had the trivialization of our politics going on ever since we had electronic media.

  Robert Scheer

  Media, Electronic Media

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• We pick governors from states where governors don't do anything, like Jimmy Carter from Georgia, George W. Bush from Texas.

  Robert Scheer

  Texas, Georgia, States

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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

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• Nuclear weapons are inherently threatening to all of civilization. If that had been a nuclear weapon at the World Trade Center, even the most primitive kind of the Hiroshima, Nagasaki, you wouldn't have a Manhattan. There wouldn't be a democracy of any kind in America.

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  Civilization, America, Democracy

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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

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• Boycotts don't work. They work in certain isolated situations, where you have some potential. But in the main, the best way to bring about freedom in a society is to normalize, have tourism, have trade, have contact.

  Robert Scheer

  Way, Tourism, Certain

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• Life is a horror for the Korean people. And I think isolating them further is going to make life more miserable.

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  Thinking, People, Korean

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

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  Enemy, Regimes, Trade

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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

• 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

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• It takes no courage to make war, particularly if you're not going to go and your children are not going to go.

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  Children, War, Ifs

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• Eisenhower was a pretty peace-oriented president. Truman was a pretty hawkish. I would argue, if we had more time, I would argue Truman had a lot to do with getting the Cold War going.

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  War, President, Arguing

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• Eisenhower provided the first break in the Cold War, by bringing Khrushchev to the United States, in humanizing the Soviets; and then Nixon, by making the opening to China; and then Reagan, even meeting in Reykjavik with Gorbachev and acknowledging that nuclear weapons are a horror. So I won't accept that Republicans just escalate. Republicans, at least when they were more moderate, they were maybe even more isolationist, they sometimes brought sanity to the debate. We don't have that now. We have - all these Republicans have gone off the neoconservative deep end.

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  War, United States, Nuclear

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• We think the Republicans are the ones who started this fundamentalist religion claptrap, you know? It was Jimmy Carter. He's the one who talked about, you know, "I'm a born-again Christian. I pray all the time. I do this," etc.

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  Christian, Thinking, Fundamentalist Religion

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• Democrats can give us wars, you know? Democrats can play the false patriotism card.

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  War, Play, Giving

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• There's a problem of terrorism in the world. There's always been terrorism. There will be terrorism. You have to deal with it surgically. You have to deal with it in a serious way.

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  World, Way, Serious

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• I've never met any strong critic of the United States anywhere in the world who gave us any credit for having limit on government.

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  Strong, Government, Credit

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• The terrorists are going to believe the worst about America. They think we spy on everything. They think we kill everyone. They think - they don't believe that we believe in democracy, right? They don't believe we have limits on our government.

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  Believe, Thinking, Government

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• I happen to be one of those in the antiwar part of things who actually supported Bill Clinton when he sent the cruise missiles in to take out bin Laden. I had thought we had the right to use Special Forces to go in for bin Laden. He had attacked American embassies. He attacked ships. And so, I didn't see any need to coddle the Taliban.

  Robert Scheer

  Special, Needs, Use

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

  Robert Scheer

  War, Democracy, Forget

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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