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" The United States was seriously defeated in Iraq by Iraqi nationalism - mostly by nonviolent resistance. The United States could kill the insurgents, but they couldn't deal with half a million people demonstrating in the streets. "

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" In September 1993, President Clinton presided over a handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn - the climax of a 'day of awe,' as the press described it. "

" You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India. "

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" How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me. "

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

" To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position. "

" 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. "

" Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it. "

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

" In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival. "

" I don't usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this 'hopey changey stuff,' she was right: there was nothing there. "

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

" When I look at public opinion, I'm not far out of the mainstream. I'm in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I've ever said. "

" Palestinians have no wealth or power. "

" When a politician uses the word 'folks,' we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming. "

" When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University - that I don't like. "

Noam Chomsky

Way

Stanford

" Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb. "

" It could be - and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don't like it - that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track. "

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" In the case of the environment, there's no one to bail it out. "

" The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important. "

" A large majority of Americans believe that the U.N., not the U.S., should take the lead in working with Iraqis to transfer authentic sovereignty as well as in economic reconstruction and maintaining civic order. "

" On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public. "

" The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy's finest hour. "

" There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy. "

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

" There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office - anything that benefits the population has to be dismantled. Efforts against the U.S. Postal Service are particularly surreal. "

" 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. "

" Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is. "

" I don't think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state. "

" It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided. "