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" The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It's also the only privatized system. "
Noam Chomsky
Twice
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" For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement. "
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" Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism. "
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" The U.N. charter bars the threat of force. "
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" If you're working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option. "
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" I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR. "
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" Obama, of course, outspent McCain. "
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" Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb. "
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" I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn't picked me up. "
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" The U.S. is not constructing a palatial embassy, by far the largest in the world and virtually a separate city within Baghdad, and pouring money into military bases, with the intention of leaving Iraq to Iraqis. "
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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. "
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" Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything. "
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" The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism. "
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" The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials - literally, which is why I'm teaching at MIT. "
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" If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself. "
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" There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy. "
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" In November 2007, the White House issued a Declaration of Principles demanding that U.S. forces must remain indefinitely in Iraq and committing Iraq to privilege American investors. "
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" The U.S. - the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that's hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan. "
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Gone
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" In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back. "
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" The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy's finest hour. "
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" The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s. "
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" 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. "
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" The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy. "
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" The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant. "
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" There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly. "
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" I have been - I have spoken in Bir Zeit a number of times. "
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" Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited the linguistics research program at MIT, and we have worked together on several projects since. "
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" The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests. "
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" In the late Fifties and early Sixties, opposition to state terror and aggression and torture and so on was zero. That was a horrible time: the massive Kennedy terror operation against Cuba, the first attacks on Vietnam in 1962, the imposition of national security states in South America. "
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" Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by 'sophisticated' methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real. "
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