Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by David Sirota

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American commentator David Sirota.
Last updated on April 15, 2025.
David Sirota

David J. Sirota is an American journalist, columnist at The Guardian, editor for Jacobin, author, television writer, and screenwriter. He is also a political commentator and radio host based in Denver. He is a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, political spokesperson, and blogger. In March 2019, he began working as the senior advisor and speechwriter on the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign. In 2022, he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay for conceiving the story for Netflix's Don't Look Up alongside co-writer and director Adam McKay. He is founder of The Lever news outlet.

Typically in politics it is easier for the left to mobilize against a Republican president than it is to mobilize against a Democratic president, even in the cases when the Republican president or Democratic president are pushing the same exact thing.
In America, we are living in a country where the deep economic problems have not been solved and arguably, in many cases, haven't been addressed.
At what point do [progressives] take off our partisan blinders and start wondering whether a very powerful faction of Democrats actually continues to SUPPORT President Bush and the War in Iraq?
Let's hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American. — © David Sirota
Let's hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American.
However, white male privilege means white men are not collectively denigrated/targeted for those shootings - even though most come at the hands of white dudes.
The reality of politics is, if Trump is the president tonight, every progressive group in America will be able to mobilize in a way tomorrow that they may not necessarily have been able to mobilize yesterday.
Hillary Clinton did not represent, on a lot of policy matters, what the American public perceived to be as a change.
Most often the electorate votes for change.
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