The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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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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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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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 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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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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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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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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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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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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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