politics Quotes

To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn't do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress.

Clinton himself acted in ways which increased the threat of terror.

The U.S. is just in a class by itself in military expenses. It basically matches the rest of the world, and it's far more advanced.

Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first.

The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.

Unlike Iran, Israel refuses to allow inspections at all, refuses to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty, has hundreds of nuclear weapons, has advanced delivery systems.

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination', we might say - exercised through the mass media.