It's Even Worse Than You Think Quotes

“thanks to the ease of Internet communications, and laws in most states permitting people to walk around carrying assault rifles and other weapons of war, the current crop of neo-Nazis, skinheads, and various hard-core hatemongers can easily recruit their niche audiences while putting fear into the hearts of other Americans.”
― David Cay Johnston, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

“The Hart focus group reminded us of what every con artist knows: people see what they want to see, hear what they want to hear, believe what they want to believe, and let their hopes and wishes vanquish their skepticism. Unless and until some fact they cannot reconcile slaps them hard in the face, the con’s marks will keep seeing the world through the credulous and distorted lens they fashioned for themselves.”
― David Cay Johnston, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

“This philosophy was ignored by the many pastors who endorsed Trump and accepted his statement that he is a Christian. That is worth pondering because revenge is explicitly rejected by Jesus and runs counter to the whole theme of the New Testament.”
― David Cay Johnston, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

“Revenge is the philosophy of dictators and mob bosses everywhere and always, used”
― David Cay Johnston, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

“Spicer’s statement, obviously ordered by Trump as a test of his press secretary’s loyalty—”
― David Cay Johnston, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

“few months later, psychiatrist Prudence L. Gourguechon, a former president of the American Psychoanalytic Association, proposed judging Trump’s fitness for office using the United States Army Field Manual on developing leaders. She distilled from its 188 pages five crucial qualities needed to lead: - Trust - Discipline and self-control - Judgment and critical thinking - Self-awareness - Empathy Not one of these is part of Trump’s nature.”
― David Cay Johnston, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

“The path to a better future is through investing in education, and especially science, as well as improving infrastructure. Trump’s budget shows he is hostile to all of these, particularly science. Other politicians also have cut investments in the future. College, once free or cheap in many parts of the country, has become costly even for community college students. Not funding basic research today means America will be less prosperous than it could be in the future.”
― David Cay Johnston, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

“For almost three decades I have been pointing out that Trump creates his own reality, a point on which his other leading biographers agree. What astonishes me is how many people blind themselves to his nonsense.”
― David Cay Johnston, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

“Great social waves, like tsunamis, cannot be stopped by holding up signs in protest. They must instead continue until their destructive energy dissipates. Our hope must be that the future will produce better leaders, not worse.”
― David Cay Johnston, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

“That Trump has no regard for decency in politics is shown by his leading chants of “Lock her up” and asking people at rallies to pledge loyalty to him just as James Comey, the FBI director he fired, said he was asked to do in private. These are words and actions befitting a dictator, not an American president. But they also fit with Trump’s philosophy.”
― David Cay Johnston, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

“Worse is Trump’s faux patriotism. That Trump’s loyalties are divided, that he owes something to Moscow, is obvious from his many words of praise for Vladimir Putin, his years of lucrative financial transactions, and his hiring of Paul Manafort to run his campaign. Whether Trump is merely a fool or a knowing Kremlin agent is unresolved at this writing. What we know for sure is that the Trump campaign eagerly solicited the Kremlin’s help to defeat Hillary Clinton, wanted to use Russian diplomatic links to secretly communicate with Moscow, and that Trump directly participated in lying and covering up that secret collaboration with a hostile foreign power.”
― David Cay Johnston, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

“More surprising than Trump’s lack of knowledge of geopolitics is his ignorance of economics, the field in which he was given a bachelor’s degree by the University of Pennsylvania. Anyone who did the work to earn such a degree would know that imposing a tariff on imports from Mexico to pay for his wall means that American consumers would bear the cost, not Mexicans.”
― David Cay Johnston, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

“Trump not only inflames hatred of all Muslims, he also allows himself to be used by the Saudis. They support the most violent faction of the Islamic religion and finance terrorists while Trump praises Riyadh for fighting against terrorism, unaware of how out of touch his words are.”
― David Cay Johnston, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

“Trump lacks the emotional stability, knowledge, critical-thinking skills, and judgment to be commander in chief.”
― David Cay Johnston, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

“based on his own words and deeds, Donald Trump is manifestly unfit to hold any public office. That Donald Trump legitimately holds office under our Constitution is beyond question. That he is a clear and present danger to the whole world should be obvious by now.”
― David Cay Johnston, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

“Trump bundles together Mexicans, Muslims, journalists, climate change scientists, “elites,” and the counterdemonstrators in Charlottesville as the enemy of what in his inaugural address he called “a historic movement the likes of which the world has never seen before.”
― David Cay Johnston, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

“The Nazi leader said in 1939 that he was aware that “I have no equal in the art of swaying the masses.” Hitler also said, “Everything I have accomplished I owe to persuasion” and that the key to his success was constant repetition, a principle understood by anyone who has seen television commercials repeated so often they can quote them from memory.”
― David Cay Johnston, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

“Many white people are blinded by the presumed normality of their skin and the harm their inability to see others as equals causes everyone, including themselves, as revealed by the defensive statement, “I’m not a racist.”
― David Cay Johnston, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

“One of the great victories of the civil rights movement is that, in America, it has become unacceptable to espouse racist views publicly, though many people harbor them, sharing their biases only with those they trust. Many whites do not care to sit next to Latinos in a restaurant, fly with an Asian pilot, or report to a black woman boss.”
― David Cay Johnston, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

“his administration stood for two standards of justice, separate and unequal. One standard was for those in positions of power who shared his views and took actions he liked, even if they were unlawful. The other standard was for everyone else.”
― David Cay Johnston, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

“The burdens of student loan debt matter not just to those who take out loans or forgo higher education because they are unwilling to go into debt. These burdens, as we shall see, impose huge costs on society. They retard economic growth in ways as powerful as they are subtle. And they distort the demographics of generations to come with the potential for profound consequences about the future of life in America.”
― David Cay Johnston, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

“Science gets little attention in the Trump administration, other than the ferreting out of scientists whose work offends Trump’s love of coal and steam, combined with his frequently expressed hostility to all things digital.”
― David Cay Johnston, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

“China, India, and other countries have been increasing their investments in scientific research and luring some American scientists to leave the United States by giving them well-funded laboratories and a free hand to hire their research staffs.”
― David Cay Johnston, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

“Civil servants should never be punished for having executed policies with which a new administration disagrees.”
― David Cay Johnston, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

“The new administration wants to cut loose anyone doing stuff they don’t want to do.”
― David Cay Johnston, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

“People whose skills the federal government had spent years or decades developing were not being moved into positions of greater or parallel responsibility. Instead they were reassigned to jobs well below their skill levels, often to jobs not connected with their education or work experience.”
― David Cay Johnston, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

“I certify that the statements I have made on this form and all attached statements are true, complete, and correct to the best of my knowledge.”
― David Cay Johnston, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

“His entire life Trump has been a con artist. In The Art of the Deal he brags about deceptions that enriched him. He has boasted about not paying banks that loaned him billions of dollars.”
― David Cay Johnston, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

“Few things benefit Trump more than ignorance.”
― David Cay Johnston, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

“This is an administration that actively looks for the least qualified and the most aggressive termites to eat away at the structure of government.”
― David Cay Johnston, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America