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

Anyone in a position to overcome barriers to free thought and communication should do so.

It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.

Farming out atrocities to paramilitaries is standard operating procedure.

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

[Health-care system] is largely privatized and unregulated. So of course it's highly inefficient and costly.

Latin America has much richer resources. You'd expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.