The Ledger, every show
Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks, across all 44 shows. Pick shows below, then mix any filter with any other.
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Sachs: CIA directors never tell the truth
“CIA directors never tell the truth. If they do, they lose their job.”
Sachs: A bipartisan 'deep state' includes Cheney, Harris, Biden, and Nuland
“I think it's obvious there's basically one deep state party, and that is the party of Cheney, Harris, Biden, Victoria Nuland, my colleague at Columbia University now.”
Sachs: Victoria Nuland orchestrated a 2014 Ukraine coup that started war
“She was in then the Obama administration as Hillary's spokesperson first, and then making a coup in Ukraine in February, 2014. Not a great move. Started a war.”
Sachs: Ukraine war is driven by U.S. power projection, not Putin
“This is not a conflict about Putin invading Ukraine. This is something a lot different that has to do with American power projection into the former Soviet Union, so it's completely different.”
Sachs: China poses no security threat; nuclear war is sole threat
“I deeply believe that China is not a threat to the United States, and I deeply believe the only threat to the United States period in the world, given the oceans, given our size, and given the military, is nuclear war.”
Sachs: U.S. attempts to contain China will cause World War III
“If you try to prevent them from being a regional hegemon, we're going to end up in world war three, because as you say yourself, that this can absolutely spill over into war.”
Sachs: U.S. is in a direct war with Russia
“So this to me is the most definitive fact of our lives, which is we are now in a war, direct war, not proxy war, direct war with Russia, which has 6000 nuclear warheads.”
Sachs: United States is sole country blocking two-state solution
“And there is one country that stands in the way of imposing this. Not Iran, not the Saudis, not Egypt, not Russia, not China, not any country in the European Union, one country and one country alone, and that is because of the United States of America and the …”
Sachs: U.S. is close to nuclear war due to an escalatory foreign policy mindset
“I deeply believe we're close to nuclear war because we have a mindset that leads us in that direction. We have a mindset that everything is a challenge for survival and that escalation is therefore always the right approach.”
Sachs: India will not ally with the U.S. against China
“By the way, I don't believe India is an ally. India is a superpower. India is going to have its own very distinctive interests. Thank you. It's not going to be an ally of the United States. I happen to like India enormously and we're making their policies, but…”
Sachs: U.S. restrictions on China have created zero manufacturing jobs
“Is it leading to, ah, is it, by the way, recuperating American manufacturing jobs? Zero.”
Jeffrey Sachs: U.S. foreign policy seeks to maximize global power and hegemony
“If you want to interpret American foreign policy, it is to maximize power. And he gives a John gives a, an explanation of that. We have some differences but I think it's a very good description of American foreign policy, which is that it's trying to maximize …”
Sachs: A conflict with China would destroy California's tech economy
“Yeah, it would wreck California for one thing. It would destroy the economy that you guys are making completely.”
Sachs: CIA directors never tell the truth or they lose their jobs
“CIA directors never tell the truth. If they do, they lose their job.”
Sachs: California tech benefited from China's rise more than anywhere else
“This economy has been the biggest beneficiary of China's rise probably in the whole world.”