Katrina vanden Heuvel famous quotes

03-23-2025

These are times when what used to be called liberal is now called radical; what used to be called radical is now called insane; what used to be called reactionary is now called moderate; and what used to be called insane is now called solid, neo-conservative thinking.
-- Katrina vanden Heuvel

#Thinking #Insane #Conservative
On issue after issue, the polls - and these are not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent period of time - show that most Americans share what one could call core liberal or progressive values: investment in health care and education over tax cuts; fair trade over free trade; corporate accountability over deregulation; environmental protection over laissez-faire policies; defending Social Security and Medicare over privatizing them; raising the minimum wage over eliminating it. The country prefers progressive alternatives to the failed policies of the conservative right.
-- Katrina vanden Heuvel

#Country #Cutting #Issues
I think people are too often misinformed and, in some cases, deceived. We don't have a full marketplace of ideas in this country that in any way reflects the broad, real range of ideas.
-- Katrina vanden Heuvel

#Country #Real #Thinking
One of the most radical things that you can do is really listen to someone.
-- Katrina vanden Heuvel

#Healing #Radical
We are seeing a working-class, a middle class, which over the last three decades has seen their wages and income stagnate, while the very rich have seen their tax burden lighten in ways not seen in three or four decades. It's a face of a country that we need to look at and understand that inequality is perhaps the greatest threat to our economic recovery and democracy, and in that context we must take action.
-- Katrina vanden Heuvel

#Country #Recovery #Democracy
It seems to me both moral and practical that in the richest in nation in the world that someone working full time shouldn't live in poverty. And studies over the last 20 years in states where we have seen these minimum wage increases show there's no discernible impact on employment growth. In fact, what it does is line low-wage workers' pockets with higher wages.
-- Katrina vanden Heuvel

#Growth #World #Poverty
Obamacare is benefiting [Donald] Trump supporters.
-- Katrina vanden Heuvel

#Obamacare #Trump #Supporter
We need to find a new way forward. There are keys ways progressives can speak.
-- Katrina vanden Heuvel

#Keys #Way Forward #Needs
It's now time to organize and move forward. It's time for deep thinking, reformation of the Democratic Party.
-- Katrina vanden Heuvel

#Party #Moving #Thinking
Donald Trump is a bully who thrives on division.
-- Katrina vanden Heuvel

#Bully #Division #Trump
We're seeing people in the streets because this last week [since November 8, 2016] was a week of grief and mourning and despair for many.
-- Katrina vanden Heuvel

#Grief #People #Mourning
This country needs to take a deep breath. We are a strong, resilient nation. And the idea that the Russians hacked our election needs to be investigated. There is very little evidence at that moment except for the DNC servers.
-- Katrina vanden Heuvel

#Country #Strong #Ideas
I do believe there needs to be an investigation of the intelligence community's findings, classified findings, in order to ensure the electoral integrity of our system moving forward.
-- Katrina vanden Heuvel

#Integrity #Believe #Moving
Republican governors trying to suppress the vote.
-- Katrina vanden Heuvel

#Trying #Vote #Republican
It's also time to hold Donald Trump accountable to what he governed on. I thought the next morning after the election, there was a little squib in the paper, 2,000 workers are going to be laid off in Lordstown, Ohio and Lansing, Michigan.
-- Katrina vanden Heuvel

#Morning #Ohio #Michigan
Those poll ratings go south, I think you have a Republican Party ready to begin different kinds of hearings than [Jason] Chaffetz is unwilling to have.
-- Katrina vanden Heuvel

#Party #Thinking #Hearing
It's the first time in U.S. history a presidential candidate has not revealed his tax returns, or a president.I think that the poll ratings are in the gutter right now, right? Donald Trump's, even before he's been inugurated.
-- Katrina vanden Heuvel

#Thinking #Presidential #Firsts
I think this was a change election, as David Axelrod said. It was a primal scream by many who feel that a discredited elite failed them, economically and politically.
-- Katrina vanden Heuvel

#Thinking #Election #Scream
Who wants to privatize Medicare.
-- Katrina vanden Heuvel

#Want #Medicare
I am concerned that Donald Trump walks into the White House a walking conflict of interest in violation of the emoluments clause of the constitution, and the Stock Act. It is important to investigate whether there are financial levers, not just Russia - China, the Emirates. Because he will never make America great again - I don't believe he ever will, but he will not do so if he's beholden to.
-- Katrina vanden Heuvel

#Believe #White #America
I think it is a good thing that the United States will now be a party to the talks, to resolve a metastasizing crisis in Syria, which will destabilize Europe.
-- Katrina vanden Heuvel

#Party #Thinking #Europe
I agree that we need a working relationship with Russia to deescalate a nuclear arms race, to resolve the crisis in Syria.
-- Katrina vanden Heuvel

#Russia #Race #Arms
In the United States national security interests to have a working relationship with Russia.
-- Katrina vanden Heuvel

#Russia #United States #National Security
I would say one thing people need to do - and his is how Roosevelt's New Deal began - let us go back to cities and states where we can, build emblematic progressive reforms, like the Fight for 15 minimum wage, paid sick leave, things that improve the conditions of people's lives and that drive them into a national message.
-- Katrina vanden Heuvel

#Fighting #Cities #People

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