Scheer Quotes & Sayings

Our dependence on fossil fuels amounts to global pyromania, and the only fire extinguisher we have at our disposal is renewable energy. — Hermann Scheer

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize. — Robert Scheer

And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. He's an accountant from Chicago, doesn't know anything about what newspapers are supposed to be about, and he made a decision to get rid of the column. — Robert Scheer

It's not easy to pull off the Big Lie
and George Bush has failed. — Robert Scheer

It's funny to think of Dave Chappelle's show and how popular it was and he was before YouTube. I would imagine 'Chappelle's Show' would be even more giant if there was a chance to put his stuff online and pass it around. — Paul Scheer

The journalist's job is to get the story by breaking into their offices, by bribing, by seducing people, by lying, by anything else to break through the palace guard. — Robert Scheer

The most frustrating part of working in TV and film is that you have to convince someone to let you make what you want; in comics you can do whatever you want and for 1% of the budget of TV and film. — Paul Scheer

When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him. — Robert Scheer

FX does a great thing with its comedies where they give them a slow push out there. — Paul Scheer

The fact is ... that when totalitarian nations like China and Saudi Arabia play ball with U.S. business interests, we like them just fine. But when Venezuela's freely elected president threatens powerful corporate interests, the Bush administration treats him as an enemy. — Robert Scheer

The Internet is just a chance to do something. Nowhere else can you go, 'I have an idea, I can write this idea, and I can execute this idea.' — Paul Scheer

For example, I spent a lot of time with Reagan, both before he ran for governor and when he was running for president. As a print reporter without the cameras, I was able to really test the quality of their minds and their knowledge base. — Robert Scheer

Steve Rannazzisi, Nick Kroll, Paul Scheer, Jon Lajoie - and they're such funny guys that they bring their own sort of twist to it all. — Katie Aselton

The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that. — Robert Scheer

Rain makes applesauce. Oh, you're just talking silly talk! — Julian Scheer

It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it. — Robert Scheer

Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money. — Robert Scheer

I'm married, and my wife has set out very limited Xbox limits. But if I had my druthers, I'd be playing all the time and never see any of my friends or do any work. — Paul Scheer

In the case of Ohliger, I also sucked blood from the wound on her temple, and from Scheer from the stab in the neck. From the girl Schulte I only licked the blood from her hands. It was the same with the swan in the Hofgarten. I used to stroll at night through the Hofgarten very often, and in the spring of 1930 I noticed a swan sleeping at the edge of the lake. I cut its throat. The blood spurted up and I drank from the stump and ejaculated. — Peter Kurten

There's no other place that exemplifies a fanatic as much as Chicago. I feel like sports fans have bred out of Chicago. — Paul Scheer

One of the coolest things was that, in 2007, I got to go to Iraq with Rob Riggle, Paul Scheer, and Horatio Sanz. We went over there to do some comedy shows with the U.S.O. — Rob Huebel

Well, what happened is that I had been the subject of vicious attacks by Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh. — Robert Scheer

I saw every single movie when I was a kid. — Paul Scheer

I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency. — Robert Scheer

Adult Swim has cornered this really cool market, especially for comedy shows. — Paul Scheer

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform. — Robert Scheer

For instance, Clinton who was unquestionably the smartest of the bunch I talked to - both the ones who made it and didn't. He had a great interest in policy. — Robert Scheer

My background is in improv and writing. — Paul Scheer

That means presenting the issues in certain ways that will appeal to those people and then becoming a prisoner of your own language and thought process. That has always happened - it's just been intensified. — Robert Scheer

Everything is in New York or L.A. or whatever, but Chicago is more of, like, a real world. It has the art and the music, but it's more centered and grounded. — Paul Scheer

Some day, I hope to be quoted. — Ron Scheer

Even with the best of intentions, even when they're very smart and knowledgeable - as opposed to George W., who is neither - it doesn't seem to matter. — Robert Scheer

I've been with the paper for almost 30 years. — Robert Scheer

What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs. — Robert Scheer

Nuclear power and fossil fuels are the choices of the past. Renewable energy is the choice of the future that is here today. — Hermann Scheer

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter. — Robert Scheer

The publisher has told - you know, if these editors, Andres Martinez and Nick Goldberg, were the least bit honest about this, they would tell you the publisher has told them he wants the editorial page to be conservative. — Robert Scheer

I have broken a lot of stories. — Robert Scheer

Summer movies are all about things blowing up and you going, 'Yeah!' — Paul Scheer

Kiefer Sutherland is a crazy jerk on '24,' but you love him because he gets the job done. And I think that that goes for a lot of action stars, I mean Steven Segal is a jerk, but you want to watch him because, eventually, he's a jerk who can beat up bad people. — Paul Scheer

And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there. — Robert Scheer

At least 3% of the signers of the Constitution must have been gay, since that's the low estimate for any population sample. It was probably higher, given that they were a pretty talented bunch and wore wigs. — Robert Scheer

They know that the column resonates in the community. They know that people like it, and yet they don't have room for one column once week that consistently got it right. — Robert Scheer

Vincent Forte was kicked out of the UFC because he was too hardcore. — Paul Scheer

I love that experience of seeing a bad movie or a movie that you don't even know, and then experiencing it with your friend. — Paul Scheer

So this guy, Jeff Johnson, who is an accountant who cares nothing at all about a free press and cares nothing about journalism, he's a right winger who supported the war, you know, who two years ago told people he couldn't stand a word that I wrote. — Robert Scheer

She was smart enough to be cynical yet had nothing to be cynical about. Her — Kodi Scheer

I talked to Reagan for about six hours all told. and Reagan was willing to go along with it. He didn't look at his watch, and he didn't allow his campaign aides to cut it off. — Robert Scheer

I was able to do something that people can't do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job. — Robert Scheer

Today anyone on the Internet can find out more about what you read, think, and earn than the secret police of Stalin or Hitler could have learned. — Robert Scheer

I loved 'Burning Love,' and I really do love almost everything Paul Scheer touches. — Kristen Schaal

The death of American liberalism as a significant moral force can be traced to the point in when President Bill Clinton signed legislation that effectively ended the main federal anti-poverty program and turned the fate of welfare recipients, 70 percent of whom were children, over to the tender mercies of the states. With a stroke of the pen, Clinton eliminated what remained of New Deal-era compassion for the poor and codified into law the "tough love" callousness that his Republican allies in the Congress, led by Newt Gingrich, had long embraced. — Robert Scheer

He [Reagan] likes to tell jokes and that's why he told the ethnic joke that got him into some trouble. Perhaps if reporters didn't overreact to a politician's telling the very same joke they routinely hear and tell in the city room, we'd get more humor. — Robert Scheer

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise. — Robert Scheer

The publisher Jeff Johnson, who has offered not a word of explanation to me, has privately told people that he hated every word that I wrote. I assume that mostly refers to my exposing the lies used by President Bush to justify the invasion of Iraq. Fortunately 60 percent of Americans now get the point but only after tens of thousand of Americans and Iraqis have been killed and maimed as the carnage spirals out of control. My only regret is that my pen was not sharper and my words tougher. — Robert Scheer

You're only as good as your body of work. — Paul Scheer

of making the Grand Fleet turn away and open the range. Admiral Scheer claims that putting the van of his fleet again into action "diverted the enemy fire and rendered it possible for the torpedo-boat flotillas to take so effective a share in the proceedings," (S) but of course it is a question whether the same result might not have been obtained' by the use of the torpedo flotillas alone. In any case, it must be acknowledged that Admiral Scheer's extraordinary manoeuvres had accomplished a surprise effect upon his enemy as, besides forcing the Grand Fleet to turn away, the moral effect of this torpedo attack had a great influence upon the British conduct of the rest of the action. It is also evident that the British had not comprehended — Thomas Goddard Frothingham

Oddly enough, the lack of money makes us a little bit more creative in a sense. — Paul Scheer

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers. — Robert Scheer

Came the day of the first trial. The propellants were hydrazine and WFNA. We were all gathered around waiting for the balloon to go up, when Dr. Milton Scheer(Uncle Milty) warned,
"Hold it - the acid valve is leaking!"
"Go ahead - fire anyway!" Paul ordered.

I looked around and signaled to my own gang, and we started backing away gently, like so many cats with wet feet. — John D. Clark