Robert Scheer Quotes

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

I've taught a college journalism course at two universities where my students taught me more than I did them about how political news is consumed.

After the most unusual election in modern U.S. history came the most unusual transition, to be followed, surely, by the most unusual presidency.

Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin.

History will record that the Citizens United decision is one of the worst in the history of our country.

No one in the modern history of this country, no president, has done more to move toward a balanced budget than has President Bill Clinton.

But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know.

For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

Certainly in the Capitol you do get moments were you sort of take a deep breath and think of all the historic figures who have been in that building, like Abraham Lincoln, who have stood right in those same rooms to make the landmark decisions.

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.

The senior thesis of Hillary D. Rodham, Wellesley College class of 1969, has been speculated about, spun, analyzed, debated, criticized and defended. But rarely has it been read, because for the eight years of Bill Clinton's presidency it was locked away.

President Obama will go down as having passed some of the most historic bills in the history of this country.

We created a show and a scenario for college students where they can take what they learn in class every day and apply it to the real world.

I am here to give the American people some straight talk about higher education. Some have said we might have cut financial aid for college students. The truth is we have expanded access to college for our neediest students through the record growth of the Pell grant program.

Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.

I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.

Over the years, over the history of our country, liberals have stood on many of the right sides of the issues.

The Pell Grant is more than a financial aid program for college students in need. It is the right thing to do for America's college students, and it is the right thing to do for America's economy.

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

The most secretive White House in modern history has learned the hard way …that it must reveal a pretty steady stream of secrets.

The history of America is the history of the presidency.

If I’ve done nothing else for the country, I’ve saved them from Dick Nixon.

When we look at the history of the American Presidency, we are forced to conclude that Darwin had it backwards.

Historians will eventually sort out the good and bad of each administration.