Jimmy Dore > Quotes

“I am not the sharpest knife in the knife-thing.”
― Jimmy Dore, Citizen Jimmy

“If it wasn't anti-Semitic to do it to South Africa, it's not anti-Semitic to do it to Israel.”
― Jimmy Dore

“We're a nation of adult children of alcoholics. We don't get mad at the people who are inflicting the pain in this country. We get mad at the people who are pointing it out.”
― Jimmy Dore

“It used to be the role of the Fourth Estate to monitor our politicians and their donators. But the criminals got smart and decided to buy the watchdog, too. Now there is nobody watching the store, and the dog has been hired by the very criminals they are supposed to be watching.”
― Jimmy Dore, Your Country Is Just Not That Into You: How the Media, Wall Street, and Both Political Parties Keep on Screwing You - Even After You've Moved On

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism—ownership of government by an individual, by a group.”           —Franklin D. Roosevelt”
― Jimmy Dore, Your Country Is Just Not That Into You: How the Media, Wall Street, and Both Political Parties Keep on Screwing You - Even After You've Moved On

“Women wouldn’t even be an issue if we all gestated our young in fleshy pods the way Scientologists do. However, for the most part, humans are made inside women. It’s super gross. Also a miracle, or whatever.”
― Jimmy Dore, Your Country Is Just Not That Into You: How the Media, Wall Street, and Both Political Parties Keep on Screwing You - Even After You've Moved On

“anybody worth a shit gets fired from those places.”
― Jimmy Dore

“and the reason why it took them so long to impeach him... or to start an impeachment trial, is because they had to find a crime that Trump committed that they were not also complicit in.”
― Jimmy Dore

“The problem with unemployment benefits is that they encourage people not to take jobs, and they take money from the productive sector and give it to the unproductive. As I’ve said again and again, if you subsidize something, you get more of it; subsidizing unemployment leads to more unemployment.”
― Jimmy Dore, Your Country Is Just Not That Into You: How the Media, Wall Street, and Both Political Parties Keep on Screwing You - Even After You've Moved On

“It’s the anniversary of Senior White House Advisor Edwin Meese saying, in 1983, that people went to soup kitchens “because food is free and that’s easier than paying for it.” Two years later, Meese would say that he didn’t believe Miranda warnings were necessary, because “you don’t have many suspects that are innocent of a crime.” Naturally, in 1985, President Reagan appointed this Teddy Bear of Compassion to be U.S. Attorney General.”
― Jimmy Dore, Your Country Is Just Not That Into You: How the Media, Wall Street, and Both Political Parties Keep on Screwing You - Even After You've Moved On

“Should we have paper ballots? Let's put it up for a vote. We'll count it on electronic machines... hehehe.”
― Jimmy Dore

“Wow. A black guy with a Muslim name? You think he could be a fucking CORPORATE TOOL like Mitt Romney? He could be worse. Cuz you don't see it coming.”
― Jimmy Dore

“Why not give ME 50 billion dollars. I can go build a car plant and make cars. I can go employ people. Give me 50 billion dollars. You gotta go give it to people who already proved that they're failures?”
― Jimmy Dore

“We’re a bunch of capitalists borrowing money from a bunch of communists so we can bring democracy to a bunch of Muslims who don’t even fucking want it. And we’re not bringing democracy to them, we’re bringing Corporatism.”
― Jimmy Dore

“All I'm doing is I'm saying what AOC said when she was running for office... and people are going nuts about it.”
― Jimmy Dore

“a lot of those people probably have felonies because of the drug laws that Joe Biden passed and they can't get a job... but Hunter Biden... he can get jobs with his drug past. YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO FEEL SORRY FOR HIM!”
― Jimmy Dore

“the thing I can't take is being nice to people and asking them for money.”
― Jimmy Dore

“I grew up as a democrat so I always thought that it was just half the govt that was evil. But now of course I'm a little bit more of a grown up and I understand that it's actually one party rule. and its professional wrestling.”
― Jimmy Dore

“The biggest distributor of disinformation and lies is the government and the second is corporate news media.”
― Jimmy Dore

“We now have Republicans and Democrats ignoring Roosevelt’s wisdom and have effectively repealed the New Deal. We are right back to the same place we were in 1936. The difference is that, back then, we had FDR to push back against the bastards, now we have someone pushing with the bastards. Barack Obama does not, nor do many Democrats, “welcome their hate.” In fact, most of them fear their hate because they “welcome their money” in the form of campaign donations.”
― Jimmy Dore, Your Country Is Just Not That Into You: How the Media, Wall Street, and Both Political Parties Keep on Screwing You - Even After You've Moved On

“Fascism for me, if you look at the Italian model from ww2, its the when the corporation and the state merge to fuck the worker. And that's where we're at.”
― Jimmy Dore

“the two most corrupted motherfuckers in that Party are leading the party”
― Jimmy Dore

“This is how we used to think about them (USSR). We've now become them... Without healthcare.”
― Jimmy Dore

“Pelosi won't send direct payments during your foreclosure because Pelosi is getting direct payments from those foreclosing on you.”
― Jimmy Dore