Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the '90s.

You have to rely on yourself and your associates - gifts don't come from above; you're going to win them, or you won't have them.

John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he's regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship, the leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

The 1980's was the first time in the history of imperialism that people from the imperial society went in substantial numbers to stay with the victims in the hope that their presence would offer some protection and some help. These were not the usual students from elite universities. These were people straight out of middle America.

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

It's been a real success - one of the great business successes in the United States - to break down organization, to separate people too: it's part of consumerism. If you can drive people toward individual consumption, that's the highest goal in life. And furthermore, drive them into debt so they're trapped. You don't have to worry about a democracy function because people are trapped and they're alone.