The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire...

There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party.

The country was founded on the principle that primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it remains.

Quite generally, international affairs have more than a slight resemblance to the Mafia. The Godfather does not take it lightly when he is crossed, even by a small storekeeper.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

If you accept the institutional lunacy, then the policies are rational.

Nixon at one point informs Kissinger . . . that he wanted bombing of Cambodia. And Kissinger loyally transmits the order to the Pentagon to carry out a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. Anything that flies on anything that moves . . . genocide.