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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?

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • 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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  • 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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  • 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.

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

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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.

  • 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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  • 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.

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

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • 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.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • 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.

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

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

    "'Nothing Prepared Me for Bush'". Interview with Onnesha Roychoudhuri, www.alternet.org. April 27, 2006.
  • 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 (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
  • Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money.

    "Nothing Prepared Me for Bush". Interview with Onnesha Roychoudhuri, www.alternet.org. April 27, 2006.
  • If the war on terror is endless, you could forget about democracy.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • 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.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • Alternative media is no longer really alternative, and we're no longer that dependant upon newspapers, like the Los Angeles Times, for our information.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • 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.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • 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.

  • 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.

    "LA Times Fires Longtime Progressive Columnist Robert Scheer". "Democracy NOW!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. November 14, 2005.
  • The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.

  • 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.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • 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.

  • 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.

    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.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • We pick governors from states where governors don't do anything, like Jimmy Carter from Georgia, George W. Bush from Texas.

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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.

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

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

    Source: www.truth-out.org
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    Robert Scheer

    • Born: April 4, 1936
    • Occupation: Journalist