It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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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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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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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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