Bob Herbert Quotes

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

Barreling Behind Headlight Passengers Radically Someone Suspicion
We pretend that no one’s a racist anymore, but it’s easier to talk about pornography in polite company than racial integration
BOB HERBERT

Easier Integration Polite Pornography Racist
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.
BOB HERBERT

Clinging Country Destructive Lovers Strength Violence
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.
BOB HERBERT

Continuing Country Dark Frightening Moment War
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

Headlight Made Radically Suspicious Vehicle
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

Complaining Neighborhood Smell Warfare
We pretend that no one’s a racist anymore, but it’s easier to talk about pornography in polite company than racial integration
BOB HERBERT

Easier Integration Polite Pornography Racist
There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.
BOB HERBERT

Arrogance Mixture Power
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

Education Emphatically Reality School
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.
BOB HERBERT

Country Dark People Terrorist War
I think the Republican Party is… accurately defined as a party that looks out for the interests of the very wealthy.
BOB HERBERT

Looks Party Thinking
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

Anonymously Country Fighting Soldier Suffering Vehicle
I think the Republican Party is… accurately defined as a party that looks out for the interests of the very wealthy.
BOB HERBERT

Accurately Looks Party Thinking
There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.
BOB HERBERT

Arrogance Mixtures Power

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