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"Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it."
"The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that."
"Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war."
"The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation."
"It's designed to carry forward the neoliberal project to maximize profit and domination, and to set the working people in the world in competition with one another so as to lower wages to increase insecurity"
"It's not a free trade agreement. It has virtually nothing to do with free trade... It's a protectionist agreement; it's anti free-trade."
"The Republican and Democratic Parties are only factions of the Government Party."
"Independence of mind, enthusiasm, dedication to the field, and willingness to challenge and question and to explore new direction. There are plenty of people like that, but schools tend to discourage those characteristics."
"In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true."
"Surely few if any readers have come across the sentence they are now reading, and someone who had by chance heard or seen it could not possibly remember such a fact."
"When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy."
"In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining."
"The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming."
"Governments don't control people like they used to."
"The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world."
"Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that."
"My proposal happens to be very mainstream."
"In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine."
"In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category."
"I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable."