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" Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first. "

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" To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public. "

" Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across town, a disabled widow, is going to be able to have food to eat. "

" The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful. "

" I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog, but I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility. "

" The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it's hardly a traditional political party anymore. "

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" Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear. "

" Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. "

" It's dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy. "

" The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good. "

" Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it. "

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

" American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster. "

" You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English. "

" How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me. "

" It doesn't take long to become aware of the presence of the CIA in Laos. "

" It could be - and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don't like it - that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track. "

" Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying. "

" The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers. "

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

" The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project that has changed U.S. society enormously. "

" Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy. "

" When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has. "

" The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq. "

" Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people. The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people. "

" Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and attitudes. Over time, however, they have met with considerable success, even though there is a long way to go, and there is often regression. "

" I have never really thought that the Left was much in 'array' as far as political purposes were concerned. "

" I don't like the intellectual label. "