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

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

" Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it. "

" Obama did organize a great large number of people and many enthusiastic people, what's called in the press 'Obama's Army.' But the army is supposed to take instructions, not to implement, to introduce, develop programs and call on its own candidate to implement them. That's critical. "

" Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it. "

" States are not moral agents. "

" When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what's left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles. "

" Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions. "

" Obama, of course, outspent McCain. "

" I like Gramsci. He's an important person. "

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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. "

" I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can't explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something? "

" When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy. "

" I have been - I have spoken in Bir Zeit a number of times. "

" When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had at last won the Crusades and driven the pagans out of the Holy Land. "

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

" It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, with full U.S. support and illegally using U.S. weapons. "

" I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression. "

" The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history. "

" 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. "

" It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar. "

" The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents. "

" The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before. "

" Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich. "

" Palestinians have no wealth or power. "

" Latin America has much richer resources. You'd expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings. "

" 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. "

" It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we've seen with the Internet's development. "

" Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that. "

" It makes sense for Japan to pursue a more independent role in the world, following Latin America and others in freeing itself from U.S. domination. "

" As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression. "