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" Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured. "

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" Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States. "

" Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential. "

" A financial institution has the task of taking risks, and if it's a well run institution - say, Goldman Sachs - it tries to cover the potential losses to itself, but only to itself. "

" Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's minuscule, few percent. "

" International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places. "

" Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate. "

" From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country. "

" It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open. "

" The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went to work to overcome both of those flaws. "

" Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous. "

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

" In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.' "

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

" Occasionally the conflict between 'what we stand for' and 'what we do' has been forthrightly addressed. "

" I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had. "

" 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. "

" Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not. "

" Somebody will be able to overcome any encryption technique you use! "

" In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was extended to a mandatory embargo in 1977. And that was followed by economic sanctions and other measures - sometimes officials, countries, cities, towns - some organized by popular movements. "

" 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. "

" Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy. "

" Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society. "

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" Chinese military spending is carefully monitored by the United States. "

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

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