Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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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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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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