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“Every man is a moon and has a [dark] side which he turns toward nobody; you have to slip around behind if you want to see it.
-Mark Twain
From introduction to The Amateur.”
― Edward Klein, The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House

“In the case of many Kennedys,” Neubauer continued, “their drive for power is often supported by good deeds, by a desire to help the poor and disenfranchised, by humanitarian goals. They describe what they do not merely as ‘politics’ but as the much more lofty-sounding ‘public service.’ All this reduces the need for them to feel guilty about their single-minded pursuit of power.”
― Edward Klein, The Kennedy Curse: Why Tragedy Has Haunted America's First Family for 150 Years

“Last year, it cost the British taxpayers $57.8 million to maintain its royal family,” wrote Robert Keith Gray in Presidential Perks Gone Royal. “During that same year, it cost American taxpayers some $1.4 billion to house and serve the Obamas in the White House, along with their families, friends and visiting campaign contributors.”
― Edward Klein, Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. the Obamas

“on. “No matter how obstructive the Republicans may be, Obama has the responsibility of leadership. I’m worried that he’s overplaying his hand in saying that it’s all the Republicans’ fault.”
― Edward Klein, Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. the Obamas

“The answer is quite simple: the presidential nominee of the Republican Party will not only have to run against Barack Obama in 2012; he will also have to run against the full force and power of the liberal mainstream media and the cultural establishment. For all their carping about Obama’s coldness, detachment, isolation, and grandiosity, and for all their disappointment over his failure to become a “transformative” president, mainstream journalists and their allies in the”
― Edward Klein, The Amateur

“Jarrett favored “the Chicago Way.” Let Obama pat Clinton on the back so he would know later where to stick the knife.”
― Edward Klein, Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. the Obamas

“The need to project an image of power at the expense of one’s true feelings is characteristic of narcissistic personalities.”
― Edward Klein, Unlikeable: The Problem with Hillary

“As a campaigner, said Dee Dee Myers, who served as Bill's press secretary, Hillary made the mistake of telling audiences what she felt rather than showing them. "The presidency," said Meyers, "isn't all that powerful, except as the bully pulpit. It comes down to your ability to get people to follow you, to inspire. You have to lead. Can Hillary get people to come together, or does she remain such a polarizing figure?" For an answer to that question, all you had to do was ask half the voters in the United States, who didn't like Hillary. In total contrast to Hillary, Bill was brilliant at politics because (1) he liked people, (2) they liked him, and (3) he treated all politics, -- even presidential politics -- like local politics. He'll show up at your birthday party in suburban Cleveland if he thinks you can be useful to him down the pike," said one of his closest advisers. "Can you imagine the impact that has -- his showing up at a middle-class home out of nowhere? You never forget it, and you tell everybody you know about it. These other guys in politics don't get the power of that kind of thing. The ripple effect it has politically over the long term. Bill does. He's been doing that since he was in high school.”
― Edward Klein, UNLIKEABLE: The Problem with Hillary

“Flouting federal laws governing record-keeping requirements. Failing to preserve emails sent or received from her personal accounts, as required by law. Circumventing the Freedom of Information Act. Instructing her aides to send classified materials on her unsecure network. Running afoul of the “gross negligence” clause of the Espionage Act (which meant prosecutors would not have to prove “intent” to find her guilty). Pretending she didn’t know that Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) was classified. Transferring classified material that originated at the CIA, the National Security Agency, and other intelligence sources, to her unsecured network. Authoring hundreds of emails with classified information to people who did not have security clearance. Inducing aides to commit perjury. Lying to the FBI. Engaging in public corruption by using the office of secretary of state to feather the nest of the Clinton family foundation.”
― Edward Klein, Guilty as Sin: Uncovering New Evidence of Corruption and How Hillary Clinton and the Democrats Derailed the FBI Investigation

“What you have with Barack Obama is a lack of character.”
― Edward Klein, The Amateur

“Plus, there is the dynamic that when I run for president I’m going to be the boss, and I’m not sure Bill will be able to handle that. He says he’ll be my adviser and loving husband, but I’m afraid that if I’m elected, he’ll think he’s president again and I’m first lady. If he starts that shit, I’ll have his ass thrown out of the White House.”
― Edward Klein, Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. the Obamas

“This anti-Hillary sentiment was especially alive and well in the White House, where the ruling triumvirs—Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett, and Michelle Obama—were working overtime to undermine Hillary’s chances.”
― Edward Klein, Unlikeable: The Problem with Hillary

“Forty-four years ago,”
― Edward Klein, Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. the Obamas

“Spectemur Agenda”
― Edward Klein, Just Jackie: Her Private Years

“matters), Donna Shalala (education and health issues), Robert Rubin and Robert Reich (tax and economic policy), James Carville (politics), Al Gore (the environment), and Caroline Kennedy (education). “Caroline toured the library,” a Clinton”
― Edward Klein, Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. The Obamas

“Romney.”
― Edward Klein, Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. The Obamas

“You ain’t gonna organize no churches.’” My”
― Edward Klein, The Amateur

“post-presidential life: how he jetted around the world on Ron”
― Edward Klein, Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. the Obamas

“Blood Feud”
― Edward Klein, Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. the Obamas

“CHAPTER”
― Edward Klein, Unlikeable: The Problem with Hillary

“on the Obama White House. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE THE CLINTONS TRIUMPHANT Shortly before his State of the Union speech in late January 2014, Barack Obama phoned Hillary Clinton to lodge a complaint.”
― Edward Klein, Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. the Obamas

“What is morally wrong can never be politically right.—ABRAHAM LINCOLN”
― Edward Klein, The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President

“In politics, you either eat the baby or you are the baby.”
― Edward Klein, Unlikeable: The Problem with Hillary