Quotes by Robert Scheer

Robert Scheer

Alternative media is no longer really alternative, and we’re no longer that dependant upon newspapers, like the Los Angeles Times, for our information.

Alternatives

Information

Media

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.

Fire

People

Voice

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.

Gay

Population

Wigs

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.

Certain

Tourism

Way

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

Giving

Play

War

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.

Nuclear

United States

War

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.

Arguing

President

War

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.

America

Country

Democracy

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.

Real

Stupid

Thinking

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.

Cities

Likes

Rooms

Follow The Behaviour University in order to get the greatest quotes from the greatest people of all time so that you can tap into your own greatness.

Alternatives

America

Appeals

Arguing

Believe

Book

Certain

Children

Chinese

Christian

Cities

Civilization

College

Compassion

Country

Credit

Dean

Democracy

Electronic Media

Enemy

Fate

Fire

Forget

Fundamentalist Religion

Gay

Georgia

Giving

Government

Groups

Hiroshima And Nagasaki

Honest

Hung

Ifs

Information

Insulting

Interest

Iraq

Issues

Jobs

Journalism

Korea

Korean

Likes

Lying

Media

Men

Needs

Nuclear

Numbers

Pants

The Future Blueprint

Tool

The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

Tool

The Autobiography

Tool

The Behaviour Diary

Tool

The Dating Diary

Tool

The Relationship Therapist

Tool

Quotes by Robert Scheer

Robert Scheer

Alternative media is no longer really alternative, and we’re no longer that dependant upon newspapers, like the Los Angeles Times, for our information.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Get Social with TBU

Topics by Robert Scheer

Popular Tools

The Future Blueprint

The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

The Autobiography

The Behaviour Diary

The Dating Diary

The Relationship Therapist

Menu

Menu