Quotes by Eugene Jarecki

Eugene Jarecki

As I was growing up, you know, I’m a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and my mother’s family had fled the czars of Russia before that.

Father

Growing Up

Mother

Elites are once again invoking Reagan, dropping their Gs and saying things in a folksy sort of way thats meant to capture the hearts of people. And its all fraud; its all stagecraft. And people are falling for a great deal of elite behavior in this country packaged as if its proletariat behavior.

Country

Fall

Heart

Frank Capra made a series of films during World War II called ‘Why We Fight’ that explored America’s reasons for entering the war. Today, with our troops engaged in Iraq and elsewhere for reasons far less clear, I think it’s crucial to ask the questions: ‘Why are we doing what we are doing? What is it doing to others? And what is it doing to us?’

Fighting

Thinking

War

I don’t think Reagan is primarily funny, and I don’t think he’s primarily marvelous; he’s complicated.

Complicated

Marvelous

Thinking

I have criticisms of Ronald Reagan, but he lives in another universe from the kind of political theater that is represented by people, like Sarah Palin, who aren’t really public servants.

Criticism

People

Political

I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman.

Growing Up

Kids

Mean

If we went back to the imprisonment rate we had in the early ’70s, something like four out of five people employed in the prison industry would lose their jobs. That’s what you’re up against.

Four

Jobs

People

If you watch the evening news, Dr. Kissinger is very often brought on to sort of be the statesman of his age and to reflect dispassionately on world events. And so a film challenging his legacy, a film that assesses charges that are quite grave against him, is something that is touchy for the media to show.

Age

Challenges

Media

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

Past

Teach

Understanding

It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle. So growing up, it was always a part of my breakfast cereal to think of myself as someone who was part of a larger struggle.

Growing Up

Struggle

Thinking

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Amnesty

Antagonism

Black

Boys

Challenges

Complicated

Country

Criticism

Deficit

Discussion

Drug

Eight

Ends

Fall

Fashion

Father

Favors

Feet

Fighting

Figures

Fire

Four

Growing Up

Heart

Holocaust

Icons

Ideas

Intelligent

Jobs

Kids

Lessons

Mama

Marvelous

Mean

Media

Men

Mother

Negative

Oppression

Party

Past

People

Political

Pros And Cons

Quality

Real

Regret

Servant

Should

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Quotes by Eugene Jarecki

Eugene Jarecki

As I was growing up, you know, I’m a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and my mother’s family had fled the czars of Russia before that.

Elites are once again invoking Reagan, dropping their Gs and saying things in a folksy sort of way thats meant to capture the hearts of people. And its all fraud; its all stagecraft. And people are falling for a great deal of elite behavior in this country packaged as if its proletariat behavior.

I don’t think Reagan is primarily funny, and I don’t think he’s primarily marvelous; he’s complicated.

I have criticisms of Ronald Reagan, but he lives in another universe from the kind of political theater that is represented by people, like Sarah Palin, who aren’t really public servants.

I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman.

If we went back to the imprisonment rate we had in the early ’70s, something like four out of five people employed in the prison industry would lose their jobs. That’s what you’re up against.

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle. So growing up, it was always a part of my breakfast cereal to think of myself as someone who was part of a larger struggle.

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