Barron and Paul...rely on 'specialists' at the State and Defense Departments...Elsewhere in the media, similiar figures are bandied about, with equal credibility.

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

Organization and education, when they interact with each other, they strengthen each other, they are mutually supportive.

It doesn't take long to become aware of the presence of the CIA in Laos.

This is real. This is the real mad man theory. We have to be irrational and vindictive, so people don't know what we're up to. This is not Donald Trump and Steve Bannon, it's from the Bill Clinton era.

There was a hemispheric conference in Colombia. It couldn't reach a consensus, so there was no declaration that came out, but on the crucial issues, Canada and the US were totally isolated. The rest of the hemisphere voted one way, and the US and Canada rejected it. So there couldn't be a consensus.

I think a very important aspect of language has to do with the establishment of social relations and interactions. Often, this is described as communication. But that is very misleading, I think.

The developing world voice can be amplified enormously by support from the wealthy and the privileged, otherwise it's very likely to be marginalized.

Even Stalin proclaimed his love for democracy. We do not learn about the nature of systems of power by listening to their rhetoric.

Israel is a pretty crazy state.

Should a community... be free to enact legislation to say they don't want blacks? Now that's illegal. Fifty years ago it was legal. Is that progress or is that regress?

It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The real world teaches very different lessons, and it takes willful and dedicated ignorance to fail to perceive them.

The indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they're being objective.

The U.S. has strategic and economic interests in Southeast Asia that must be secured. Holding Indochina is essential to securing these interests. Therefore, we must hold Indochina.

Sectors of power are not going to favor the flourishing of dissidence.

Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.

There are all the activist groups on every imaginable topic -- solidarity groups, environmental and feminist groups -- sectors of these movements do very valuable work.

The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.