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22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

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Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

#bill #bill clinton #clinton #faced #great

But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

#biggest #house #i #learned #lessons

Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

#clinton #creative #creative ways #federal #federal government

The book shows Clinton in the presidency as a profile in growth. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

#clinton #growth #presidency #profile #shows

We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the millennium bombings. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

#bin #bombings #cells #findings #him

We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#action movies #african #african american #american #asian

In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren't computer people, and the computer people usually aren't the artistic people, so they always stand on opposite sides of the line. ↗

— Don Bluth

#animation #artistic #computer #line #opposite

The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it. ↗

— Don Bluth

#action films #animated #anything #department #film

Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting them almost be inside the room rather than looking at it through the window. I think it will really work. ↗

— Joel Edgerton

#almost #audience #drama #get #going