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There are people who are trying to advance themselves by wrapping themselves in Reagan.

~Eugene Jarecki

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The prison industrial complex is perhaps, at least domestically, the most striking example of us putting profit before people. It all stems from one basic misunderstanding: that the public good can be shepherded by private interests.

~Eugene Jarecki

Topics: Basic Before Complex Example Good Industrial Interests Least Misunderstanding Most People Perhaps Prison Private Profit Public Public Good Putting Stems Striking Us

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Ronald Reagan, whatever his pros and cons were, was a public servant in the end.

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It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

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The prison industrial complex, to put it in its crassest term, is a system of industrial mass incarceration. So there's what you call bureaucratic thrust behind it. It's hard to shut off because politicians rely upon the steady flow of jobs to their district that the prison system and its related industries promise.

~Eugene Jarecki

Topics: Because Behind Bureaucratic Call Complex District Flow Hard Incarceration Industrial Industries Jobs Mass Off Politicians Prison Promise Put Related Rely Shut Steady System Term Thrust You

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The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is we who with our feet and our vote and our labors and our vigilance are supposed to shape our country.

~Eugene Jarecki

Topics: Country Democracy Feet Idea Labors Make Our Ourselves Path People Politics Shape Supposed Vigilance Vote Who Whole

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His track record of pragmatism, depth and candor all speak to a person who would find the Tea Party simplistic, opportunistic and misguided. Reagan was surrounded by some very smart people who gave him very sound advice. They were not wondering where certain countries are on the map.

~Eugene Jarecki

Topics: Advice Candor Certain Countries Depth Find Gave Him His Map Misguided Party People Person Pragmatism Reagan Record Simplistic Smart Smart People Some Sound Speak Surrounded Tea Tea Party Track Track Record Very Were Where Who Wondering Would

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As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and my mother's family had fled the czars of Russia before that.

~Eugene Jarecki

Topics: American Before Born Family Father Germany Growing Growing Up Had Holocaust Jewish Know Mother Parents Russia Up White You

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It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle. So growing up, it was always a part of my breakfast cereal to think of myself as someone who was part of a larger struggle.

~Eugene Jarecki

Topics: Always America Black Breakfast Cereal Dignity Growing Growing Up Jewish Larger Myself Natural Part People See Sister Someone Struggle Think Up Who

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If we went back to the imprisonment rate we had in the early '70s, something like four out of five people employed in the prison industry would lose their jobs. That's what you're up against.

~Eugene Jarecki

Topics: Against Back Early Employed Five Four Had Imprisonment Industry Jobs Like Lose Out People Prison Rate Something Up Would You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: Unknown

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