UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a 'language acquisition device,' an innate component of the human mind that yields a particular language through interaction with present experience, a device that converts experience into a system of knowledge attained: knowledge of one or another language.

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

[After Vietnam] the type of interventions that are carried out are designed so as not to elicit public reactions.

That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything.

[Mikhail] Gorbachev complained. He was told look, there's nothing on paper. People didn't actually say it but the implication was look, if you are dumb enough to take faith in a gentleman's agreement with us, that's your problem. NATO expanded to East Germany.

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

The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have.