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

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" The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before. "

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" I don't think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state. "

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

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" Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. "

" There are still thousands of people dying every year in Laos, mostly children and farmers, from unexploded anti-personnel ordnance that the U.S. simply saturated much of the land with, especially in the Plain of Jars. There actually is a British engineering team trying to remove some of these things, which are much worse than land mines. "

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

" There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism. "

" The Latin American debt that reached crisis levels from 1982 would have been sharply reduced by return of flight capital - in some cases, overcome, though all figures are dubious for these secret and often illegal operations. "

" Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion and imagery. "

" In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military technology to the Middle East and Israel would recognize that country. President Clinton intervened and blocked it. "

" If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times. "

" Presented with the claims of nineteenth-century racist anthropology, a rational person will ask two sorts of questions: 'What is the scientific status of the claims?' 'What social or ideological needs do they serve?' "

" The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation - meaning primarily the United States - come down to two fundamental issues: 'What are the accepted and applicable 'rules of world order,' and how do these apply in the case of Kosovo?' "

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" Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it. "

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