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" 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. "

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" Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence. "

" Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the 'crimes against the peace' for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg. "

" The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials - literally, which is why I'm teaching at MIT. "

" 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. "

" For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us. "

" Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections. "

" 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. "

" Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism. "

" Today, we have private airline companies, but if you take a look at a Boeing plane next time you travel, you'll see that you are basically taking a ride on a modified bomber. "

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

" Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens. "

" 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. "

" There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do. "

" Anarchism means all sort of things to different people, but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society, just one organized from below with direct participation and so on. "

" Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is. "

" The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism. "

" My proposal happens to be very mainstream. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure. "

" I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. 'Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won't? How do I know there's anything there except what I'm conscious of?' "

" American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898. "

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

" By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state. "

" I didn't pay my taxes for years. "

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

" When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University - that I don't like. "

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

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