"I choose to live in what I think is the greatest country in the world, which is committing horrendous terrorist acts and should stop."
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"It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real world is."
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"There's a very committed effort to convert the US into something resembling a Third World society, where a few people have enormous wealth and a lot of others have no security."
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"In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining."
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"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."
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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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"A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won't allow it."
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"The American Revolution was a small part of a major world war going on between France and England, so the French intervened and that was a big factor, but the domestic contribution was basically guerrilla warfare."
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"The developing world voice can be amplified enormously by support from the wealthy and the privileged, otherwise it's very likely to be marginalized."
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"My feeling is that the Supreme Court reached a reasonable standard of protection of speech in the 1960s, a standard higher than any other country in the world, to my knowledge. In brief, speech should be protected up to participation in imminent criminal action."
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"There are enormous opportunities to work for a world that is more free, peaceful and just."
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"Obama's latest line is that he didn't establish a "red line" but the world did through its conventions on chemical warfare."
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"We live in this world, not another one that we'd prefer, and sometimes it's necessary to follow painful paths if we hope to provide at least a little help for suffering people."
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"You have 30% of the world unemployed, a huge amount of work, that needs to be done just rebuilding the society alone."
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"It is reported that about 30% of the world's population is unemployed. That's worse than the Great Depression, but it's now an international phenomenon."
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"Parts of the United States are taking on a Third World look."
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"There is a considerable polarization taking place here, increasing the gap between rich and poor. It's most dramatic in Third World countries, of course, but in the rich countries it's also very noticeable."
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"Stability means you do what we say, and what we say is that Colombia and the resources of the Andean region shall be freely available to the rich and powerful of the world, particularly US-based multinational corporations."
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"A big producer can survive price fluctuations on the world market. A small farmer can't."
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"The world was warned of extremely severe dangers unless urgent steps are taken to deal with global warming."
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