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" Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it. "

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" The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy. "

" If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. "

" If you're in favour of any policy - reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever - if you're at least minimally moral, it's because you think it's somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature. "

" There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they're not implemented fully, because the U.S. won't allow it. "

" It's a good idea to revitalize community colleges, to cut back, to modify the student loan program so it doesn't go through banks. "

" 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. "

" U.S. analysts estimate that Russian military expenditures have tripled during the Bush-Putin years, in large measure a predicted reaction to the Bush administration's militancy and aggressiveness. "

" It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association. "

" In November 2004, U.S. occupation forces launched their second major attack on the city of Falluja. The press reported major war crimes instantly, with approval. "

" Guantanamo is still open, but it's unlikely that serious torture is going on at Guantanamo. There is just too much inspection. "

" The childcare tax credit makes some sense. "

" The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history. "

" I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere. "

Executive Power

" Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it. "

" If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are. "

" John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he's regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship, the leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale. "

" Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard Nixon, who would be something of a dangerous radical in today's political scene. "

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

" I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me. "

" Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions. "

" When I look at public opinion, I'm not far out of the mainstream. I'm in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I've ever said. "

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

Political Party

" Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens. "

" In the case of Yugoslavia v. NATO, one of the charges was genocide. The U.S. appealed to the court, saying that, by law, the United States is immune to the charge of genocide, self-immunized, and the court accepted that, so the case proceeded against the other NATO powers, but not against the United States. "

" Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil. "

" The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests. "

" Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can't get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy. "

" The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it's a major problem, that's just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it. "

" The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that. "

" Is the Iranian record of intervention and terror worse than that of the U.S.? "