There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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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?
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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