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" I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that. "

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" When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine. "

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

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

" You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it. "

" I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable. "

" In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants. "

" 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. "

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

" If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it. "

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

" The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free. "

" The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power. "

" The Occupy movement is - it was a big surprise. "

" Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. "

" Government actually grew during the Reagan years. "

" 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. "

" In February 2004, the two traditional torturers of Haiti - France and the United States - combined to back a military coup and send President Aristide off to Africa. The U.S. denies him permission to return to the entire region. "

" There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication. "

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

" I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR. "

" 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. "

" I haven't read Horowitz. I didn't used to read him when he was a Stalinist, and I don't read him today. "

" 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. "

" Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes... to an extent, that's true elsewhere, including the United States, but it's been pretty extreme in Greece. "

" Obama did organize a great large number of people and many enthusiastic people, what's called in the press 'Obama's Army.' But the army is supposed to take instructions, not to implement, to introduce, develop programs and call on its own candidate to implement them. That's critical. "

" Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights. "

" Terrorists regard themselves as a vanguard. They're trying to mobilize others to their cause. I mean, every specialist on terrorism knows that. "

" Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens. "

" The 'peace movement' exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid. "