Peter Beinart famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It's easy to see why conservatives would be salivating at the thought of a Hillary primary challenge. Presidents who face serious primary challengesâ€”Ford, Carter, Bush Iâ€”almost always lose. The last president who lost reelection without a serious primary challenge, by contrast, was Herbert Hoover. But in truth, the chances that Obama will face a primary challenge are vanishingly slim, and the chances that he will lose reelection only slightly higher. No wonder conservatives are fantasizing about Hillary Clinton taking down Barack Obama. If she doesn't, it's unlikely they will.
-- Peter Beinart

#Challenges #President #Would Be
Fears don't exist in isolation. They tend to rise and fall depending on what people think they can do about them.
-- Peter Beinart

#Fall #Thinking #People
I hope Barack Obama puts another woman on the Supreme Court. And this time, I hope it's a woman with kids.
-- Peter Beinart

#Kids #Court #Supreme Court
I think the most inspiring thing that Americans can do for the rest of the world is struggle against the evils in our own society.
-- Peter Beinart

#Struggle #Thinking #Evil
The top line is that hubris is a disease that comes from success.
-- Peter Beinart

#Lines #Disease #Hubris
Clinton is a very capable, conscientious person. I think she cares very deeply about policy. She knows a lot about how the government works, and I think those things are very important. You don't really appreciate those things until you get a guy like George W. Bush in the White House, and then you realize that when you don't have someone who knows or cares about government policy, a lot of bad stuff can happen.
-- Peter Beinart

#Thinking #Appreciate #House
I've heard people in the Middle East tell me that the most inspiring thing for them as people struggling against dictatorship in the Middle East is the memory of the civil rights movement.
-- Peter Beinart

#Memories #Struggle #Rights
When you talk about the security and safety of average Americans it doesn't do average Americans a lot of good to expand America's military footprint if the daily lives of average Americans are being undermined by the fact that we're no longer able to compete in a global economy. I think that's the kind of human security we have to pay more attention to.
-- Peter Beinart

#Military #Thinking #Average
There are real threats but there's a difference between recognizing real threats and an irrational kind of apocalyptic threat.
-- Peter Beinart

#Real #Differences #Kind
On domestic policy, one of the major stories in American politics has been the growing ideological and political self-confidence of the Democratic Party, and the growing ideological and political pessimism of the Republican Party.
-- Peter Beinart

#Party #Political #Republican
Our sense of optimism, our can-do spirit, that's a source of great strength in America. But when there are no limits at all and we've gone through whole periods where we think everything has gone right, that's when disaster tends to strike.
-- Peter Beinart

#Thinking #America #Optimism
Foreign policy is a little bit like a guy who goes to Las Vegas. If you win too much, then you eventually bet the mortgage. You start to think you are infallible.
-- Peter Beinart

#Winning #Thinking #Vegas
I think ultimately Obama's ability to rebuild America's image in the world will depend less on his personal good will and more his ability to rebuild an American economic model that seems stable and humane and dynamic.
-- Peter Beinart

#Thinking #Economic Models #America
There's a ton of academic literature that shows people are much more critical of female leaders than they are of male leaders. They're much less tolerant of female ambition, much more threatened by female power.
-- Peter Beinart

#Ambition #People #Leader
I think the tragedy of Barack Obama's presidency is that although a lot of people around the world really admire Barack Obama a lot, they don't admire the American political and economic model as much as they used to.
-- Peter Beinart

#Thinking #Economic Models #People

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