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Top 25 Eric Alterman Quotes (2025 Update)

Eric Alterman Quote: “The war on terrorism was a bait and switch operation.”

1. “The war on terrorism was a bait and switch operation.”

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Eric Alterman Quote: “While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.”

2. “While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.”

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Eric Alterman Quote: “Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.”

3. “Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.”

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Eric Alterman Quote: “To become informed and hold government accountable, the general public needs to obtain news that is comprehensive yet interesting and understandable, that conveys facts and outcomes, not cosmetic images and airy promises. But that is not what the public demands.”

4. “To become informed and hold government accountable, the general public needs to obtain news that is comprehensive yet interesting and understandable, that conveys facts and outcomes, not cosmetic images and airy promises. But that is not what the public demands.”

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Eric Alterman Quote: “History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.”

5. “History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.”

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Eric Alterman Quote: “If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets – without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain – who average nearly $24 million a year in income – ‘next year.’”

6. “If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets – without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain – who average nearly $24 million a year in income – ‘next year.’”

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Eric Alterman Quote: “Stylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya.”

7. “Stylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya.”

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Eric Alterman Quote: “Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.”

8. “Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.”

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Eric Alterman Quote: “Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Meanwhile, the corporate lobbies stay right where they are, outlasting all the populist hysteria.”

9. “Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Meanwhile, the corporate lobbies stay right where they are, outlasting all the populist hysteria.”

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Eric Alterman Quote: “One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama’s impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.”

10. “One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama’s impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.”

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Eric Alterman Quote: “The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.”

11. “The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.”

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Eric Alterman Quote: “If liberalism has grown so weak and ineffective, why does it evoke such alarm on the part of conservatives? It turns out that while liberals are weak and spineless, they are also sneaky and clever.”

12. “If liberalism has grown so weak and ineffective, why does it evoke such alarm on the part of conservatives? It turns out that while liberals are weak and spineless, they are also sneaky and clever.”

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Eric Alterman Quote: “Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan’s true legacy, as I noted in ‘The Nation’ back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force.”

13. “Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan’s true legacy, as I noted in ‘The Nation’ back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force.”

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Eric Alterman Quote: “To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.”

14. “To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.”

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Eric Alterman Quote: “Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.”

15. “Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.”

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Eric Alterman Quote: “Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it’s easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.”

16. “Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it’s easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.”

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Eric Alterman Quote: “Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.”

17. “Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.”

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Eric Alterman Quote: “Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.”

18. “Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.”

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Eric Alterman Quote: “Americans get mad as hell with reasonable frequency but quickly return to their families and sitcoms.”

19. “Americans get mad as hell with reasonable frequency but quickly return to their families and sitcoms.”

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Eric Alterman Quote: “I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed this column.”

20. “I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed this column.”

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Eric Alterman Quote: “The word liberal has been employed as the political equivalent of an untreatable but potentially containable social disease – the kind that could be contracted merely by going to a foreign movie or ordering a decaf latte, or worse, a glass of French wine.”

21. “The word liberal has been employed as the political equivalent of an untreatable but potentially containable social disease – the kind that could be contracted merely by going to a foreign movie or ordering a decaf latte, or worse, a glass of French wine.”

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Eric Alterman Quote: “More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um, colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts cool as a proverbial cucumber but that awful ’70s show seems frightfully close to a rerun.”

22. “More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um, colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts cool as a proverbial cucumber but that awful ’70s show seems frightfully close to a rerun.”

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Eric Alterman Quote: “The White House and the media need one another in order to be successful in their jobs. The White House depends on the media to make its case to the public; the media need the White House to fill their airtime and news columns.”

23. “The White House and the media need one another in order to be successful in their jobs. The White House depends on the media to make its case to the public; the media need the White House to fill their airtime and news columns.”

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Eric Alterman Quote: “President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan’s time. But you don’t hear conservatives crowing about that.”

24. “President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan’s time. But you don’t hear conservatives crowing about that.”

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Eric Alterman Quote: “Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin’s ‘Courant,’ it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America’s last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.”

25. “Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin’s ‘Courant,’ it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America’s last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.”

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Eric Alterman Quote: “For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.”

26. “For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.”

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Eric Alterman Quote: “The consequences of President Johnsons campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his party, and the presidency itself.”

27. “The consequences of President Johnsons campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his party, and the presidency itself.”

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Eric Alterman Quote: “So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.”

28. “So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.”

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