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" The Internet has compromised the quality of debate. "

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" Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy. "

" The U.S. has strategic and economic interests in Southeast Asia that must be secured. Holding Indochina is essential to securing these interests. Therefore, we must hold Indochina. "

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

" In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends. "

" A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that's achieved by, if you like, advertising. "

" Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist. "

" Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first. "

" When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the U.N. vetoed several resolutions right away, calling for an end to the fighting and so on, and that was a hideous invasion. "

" In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard. "

" States are not moral agents. "

" Undoubtedly, the U.S. harbors leading international terrorists, people described by the F.B.I. and the Justice Department as leading terrorists, like Orlando Bosch, now Posada Carriles, not to speak of those who actually implement state terrorism. "

" The Great Seal was an early proclamation of 'humanitarian intervention,' to use the currently fashionable phrase. "

" WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for - presidential medal of honor. "

" Spaniards were condemned for appeasing terrorism by voting for withdrawing troops from Iraq in the absence of U.N. authorization - that is, for taking a stand rather like that of 70 percent of Americans, who called for the U.N. to take the leading role in Iraq. "

" I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. "

" Cuba has become a symbol of courageous resistance to attack. Since 1959, Cuba has been under attack from the hemispheric superpower. "

" Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college. "

" Over the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a long period. It was possible to justify it on the pretext, which usually turned out to have very little substance, that the U.S. was defending itself against the communist menace. By the 1980s, that was wearing pretty thin. "

" Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy. "

" I don't pay a lot of attention to polls. "

" 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. "

" Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't like the intellectual label. "

" Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions. "

" Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege. "

" I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors. "

" A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S. "