politics Quotes

If you destroyed half the pharmaceutical production in the United States, we'd think it's a pretty serious problem. In fact, we'd probably go to war.

There is no plausible theory under which the record of the Pentagon Papers can be interpreted as relating to the national defense.

The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

The Great Seal was an early proclamation of 'humanitarian intervention,' to use the currently fashionable phrase.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

Guantanamo is still open, but it's unlikely that serious torture is going on at Guantanamo. There is just too much inspection.

The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.

Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.

Pakistan is not a unified country.