My proposal happens to be very mainstream.

Clinton, Kennedy, they all carried out mass murder, but they didn't think that that was what they were doing - nor does Bush. You know, they were defending justice and democracy from greater evils.

As we [with Edward Herman] discuss there [in Manufacturing Consent] and elsewhere, recognition of the importance of "manufacturing consent" has become an ever more central theme in the more free societies.

Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.

We're supposed to worship Adam Smith but you're not supposed to read him. That's too dangerous.

Labor has been severely undermined, but that's happened before. In the 1920s, the labor movement was virtually crushed, in large part by Wilson's Red Scare, but it dramatically revived in the 1930s. It spearheaded the social-democratic New-Deal style changes which were beneficial to the country - not sufficient, but beneficial. That could happen again.

They [the union] were members of the Communist Party - they didn't care one way or another about Russia, they just cared about the United States.