Bruce Bartlett: Quotes about problems

Bruce Bartlett is American historian. Explore interesting quotes on problem.

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“Until conservatives once again hold Republicans to the same standard they hold Democrats, they will have no credibility and deserve no respect. They can start building some by admitting to themselves that Bush caused many of the problems they are protesting.”

Bruce Bartlett

Bruce Bartlett, "The GOP's Misplaced Rage" http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-08-12/the-gops-misplaced-rage/full (12 August 2009), The Daily Beast <br class="br">2000s

“That is just total nonsense and anybody who believes that is an idiot or a liar. The race issue was a fundamental problem. It was just a cancer on American society from day one.”

Bruce Bartlett

Regarding claims that the American Civil War was not about slavery; "After Words with Bruce Bartlett" http://www.c-span.org/video/?204475-1/words-bruce-bartlett (7 April 2008), C-SPAN <br class="br">2000s

“I began studying the political history of race in America. Having worked in Congress and at the White House, I have some familiarity with the nature of politics and how politicians think. I thought I could use this knowledge to illuminate this one aspect of the race problem in America in ways that might help us better deal with its long, sordid history. What quickly jumped out at me is a fact that seems obvious in retrospect, but which I had never really thought about. Virtually every significant racist in American political history was a Democrat. Before the Civil War, the Democratic Party was the party of slavery. It was based largely in the south and almost all of its leaders were slave owners, including Andrew Jackson and Thomas Jefferson, considered by Democrats to be co-founders of their party.”

Bruce Bartlett

Source: 2000s, Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party's Buried Past (2008), p. viv