A more appropriate expansion is the statement "it is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies" a transcript of a talk to a writers conference in Australia in 1996, where I had been asked to talk on "writers and intellectual responsibility" - a question that I said I found "puzzling," because I knew of nothing to say about it beyond truisms, though these were perhaps worth affirming because they are "so commonly denied, if not in words, then in consistent practice."

If you look at say, England and Germany a century ago, which had the most advanced navies then, they were dealing with extremely tricky technological problems. Putting a huge gun on a moving platform and ensuring that it could hit another moving target was one of the hardest technical problems of the early twentieth century.

The basic principle, rarely violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and privilege does not exist.

The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.

You can go into the Library of Congress and find information on just about anything, but that doesn't do you much good unless you know what you are looking for.

In America, we will use force whenever we like against anyone we regard as a potential threat, and maybe we will delegate that right to clients, but it's not for others.

The world was warned of extremely severe dangers unless urgent steps are taken to deal with global warming.