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" Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can't compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan's free market enthusiasms. "

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" The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world. "

" Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil. "

" You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them. "

" The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and now the Americans. "

" In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard. "

" In November 2008, the day of the presidential election, Israeli military forces invaded Gaza and killed half a dozen Hamas militants. Well, that was followed by a missile exchange for a couple of weeks in both directions. "

" There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy. "

" The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia - that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone. "

" In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands. "

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" A large majority of Americans believe that the U.N., not the U.S., should take the lead in working with Iraqis to transfer authentic sovereignty as well as in economic reconstruction and maintaining civic order. "

" Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal - hardly inspiring - standards of political conduct. "

" I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to. "

" Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic. "

" Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice. "

" A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster. "

" Under Clinton, the defiance of world order has become so extreme as to be of concern even to hawkish policy analysts. "

" In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students. "

" The U.S. is just in a class by itself in military expenses. It basically matches the rest of the world, and it's far more advanced. "

" The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival. "

" After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn't even go to the classes. "

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" The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming. "

" Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak. "

" If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions. "

" Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them. "

" States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. "

" I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression. "

" It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we've seen with the Internet's development. "

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" The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world. "

" When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had at last won the Crusades and driven the pagans out of the Holy Land. "