Quotes by Bob Herbert - Page 1

There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.
Bob Herbert / Journalist
Power
Arrogance
Mixtures
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I think the Republican Party is... accurately defined as a party that looks out for the interests of the very wealthy.
Bob Herbert / Journalist
Looks
Party
Thinking
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We pretend that no one's a racist anymore, but it's easier to talk about pornography in polite company than racial integration
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Polite
Racist
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Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality.
Bob Herbert / Journalist
Education
Reality
School
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I get a headache when I hear supporters of this endless warfare complaining about the federal budget deficits. They're like arsonists complaining about the smell of smoke in the neighborhood.
Bob Herbert / Journalist
Complaining
Smell
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There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.
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Country
Lovers
Violence
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The soldiers in Iraq are fighting, suffering and dying . . . anonymously and pointlessly, while the rest of us are free to buckle ourselves into the family vehicle and head off to the malls and shop.
Bob Herbert / Journalist
Fighting
Iraq
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There's a terrible sense of dread filtering across America at the moment and it's not simply because of the continuing fear of terrorism and the fact that the nation is at war. It's more frightening than that. It grows out of the suspicion that we all may be passengers in a vehicle that has made a radically wrong turn and is barreling along a dark road, with its headlights off and with someone behind the wheel who may not know how to drive.
Bob Herbert / Journalist
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America
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