List of Robert Scheer Quotes

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.

We Pick Governors From States Where Governors Don't Do Anything, Like Jimmy Carter From Georgia, George W. Bush From Texas.

We've Had The Trivialization Of Our Politics Going On Ever Since We Had Electronic Media.

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.

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.

The Great Enemy Of Any Totalitarian Regime Is Normalization And Trade.

Democrats Can Give Us Wars, You Know? Democrats Can Play The False Patriotism Card.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.