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" The Tea Party movement itself is maybe 15, 20 percent of the electorate. It's relatively affluent, white, nativist. You know, it has rather traditional nativist streaks to it. But what is much more important, I think, is the - is its outrage. "

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" The West Bank is essentially imprisoned. "

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" When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn't producing any more. "

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" In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true. "

Noam Chomsky

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" Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle. "

" There's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction - that is, the hatred and the anger - they come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they're rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger. "

" I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience. "

" If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times. "

" The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years. "

" Unlike Europe, China can't be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they've been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don't see any need to. "

" The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists. "

" Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic. "

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

" I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to. "

" The Internet has compromised the quality of debate. "

" Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the '90s. "

" If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them. "

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

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

" By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti. "

" If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities. "

" I don't want followers. "

Noam Chomsky

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" 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. "

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

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

" September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That's all to the good. "