54 Jacob Weisberg Quotes for You to Enjoy

Jacob Weisberg

American Journalist

Born: 1964

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We're quick to describe politicians whose views we find extreme or whose behavior seems odd as 'crazy,' and perhaps anyone who runs for president in some sense is. But I've long wondered whether Newt Gingrich merits that designation in a more clinical sense. Jacob Weisberg

Crazy Behavior Long Politicians Sense President Extreme Find Runs Gingrich Some Seems More Merits Perhaps Odd Clinical Quick Wondered Anyone Whether Newt Newt Gingrich Views Who Describe Whose Designation

America's sanctions policy is largely consistent and, in a certain sense, admirable. By applying economic restraints, we label the most oppressive and dangerous governments in the world pariahs. We wash our hands of evil, declining to help despots finance their depredations, even at a cost to ourselves of some economic growth. Jacob Weisberg

Finance World Dangerous Evil Sense Our Despot Consistent Ourselves Admirable Some Cost Economic Economic Growth Most Policy Oppressive Governments Label America Hands Sanctions Declining Certain Help Wash Even Largely Growth Applying

People who live in hermit states like North Korea, Burma, and Cuba already suffer from global isolation. Fed on a diet of propaganda, they don't know what's happening inside their borders or outside of them. By increasing their seclusion, sanctions make it easier for dictators to blame external enemies for a country's suffering. Jacob Weisberg

Suffering Blame People Enemies Country Isolation Live Hermit Increasing States Easier Borders Inside Propaganda Fed Outside Like Global Know Make Cuba Korea Dictators North North Korea Diet Burma Happening Sanctions Them Who Suffer Seclusion External

If you want to go around saying that giving women the vote wrecked the country and still be taken seriously, it helps to be handing out $100 bills. Jacob Weisberg

Saying You Vote Women Seriously Giving Country Out Wrecked Taken Around Still Go Handing Want Bills Helps

Most people prefer living in a healthier town. Jacob Weisberg

People Living Town Most Healthier Prefer

Vietnam was a terrible mistake for the United States. But like Iraq, Vietnam was a badly chosen battlefield in a larger conflict with totalitarianism that America had no choice but to pursue. Jacob Weisberg

Mistake Conflict Totalitarianism States Battlefield No Choice Pursue Had Badly Like Terrible Iraq America Choice Vietnam Chosen United Larger United States

Joe Lieberman can be cloying and sanctimonious. Jacob Weisberg

Joe Sanctimonious

To describe the world Michael Jackson has created around himself as a childhood fantasy isn't quite accurate. Thanks to wealth and celebrity, he has been able to live as a superannuated child. With the help of plastic surgery and dramatic affectation, he has made himself look and sound pre-pubescent. Jacob Weisberg

World Wealth Made Thanks Live Dramatic Has-Been Able He Look Himself Around Sound Surgery Affectation Been Michael Michael Jackson Celebrity Child Accurate Jackson Quite Childhood Fantasy Created Help Plastic Describe Plastic Surgery

Republicans with any moral sense are desperate for a supportable alternative to Donald Trump. Jacob Weisberg

Desperate Sense Moral Moral Sense Alternative Trump Donald Donald Trump Any Republicans

As a political party, the Libertarians have always been more party than political. Jacob Weisberg

Political Party Libertarians More Always Been Political Party Than

Professional politicians often claim they are not professional politicians. Trump genuinely isn't one. Jacob Weisberg

Politicians Claim Genuinely Trump Often Professional

To Trump, being a billionaire means plating everything in gold and slapping his name everywhere in huge block letters. It means that he gets to say whatever pops into his head and never has to say he is sorry. Jacob Weisberg

Founded in rebellion against colonial tyranny, our country is naturally suspicious of government intrusion, interference, and snooping. European systems, by comparison, grow out of a tradition of the state providing social benefits for workers that stretches back to Bismarck and Germany in the 1880s. Jacob Weisberg

Government Rebellion Benefits Tyranny Country State Back Our Out Systems Intrusion Colonial Tradition Providing Germany Suspicious Against Social Workers Interference Naturally European Grow Comparison Founded

Abandoning traditions of responsibility and civility won the GOP control of both houses of Congress in 1994. Rejecting any compromise brought Republicans the perks and power of majority control for the first time in 40 years. Thus did the politics of total resistance become their path of least resistance. Jacob Weisberg

Politics Time Path Responsibility Power First Become Control Congress Abandoning Total Brought Compromise Civility Both Thus Majority GOP Houses First Time Perks Least Years Traditions Won Did Any Republicans Rejecting Resistance