Sometimes I lose my temper.
NOAM CHOMSKYConcentration 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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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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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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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 you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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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.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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