The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them.

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.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

The public is easily amenable to lies: the more lies there are, the greater the support for war. For instance, when the public was told that Saddam Hussein would attack the U.S., this increased support for the war.

There certainly are those who worship the state much as divinities are worshipped. Not just the state but even leaders.

We [ with Edward Herman] believe that the empirical evidence we review there - and elsewhere, in a great deal of joint and separate work - lends substantial support to the conclusions; whether that is true is for others to judge.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.