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" The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as 'failed states.' "

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" I haven't read Horowitz. I didn't used to read him when he was a Stalinist, and I don't read him today. "

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" There's a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn't count the votes right, and so on. That's all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don't take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term 'election.' "

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

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

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

" The doctrine that everything is fine as long as the population is quiet, that applies in the Middle East, applies in Central America, it applies in the United States. "

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" The western mantra is that Israel seeks negotiations without preconditions, while the Palestinians refuse. The opposite is more accurate. "

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