For the past century or so that's [ Monroe Doctrine] actually been true, but it's declining very significantly.

In the Occupied Territories, what Israel is doing is much worse than apartheid. The South African Nationalists needed the black population. That was their workforce. The Israeli relationship to the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories is totally different. They just don’t want them.

There are many cases around the world in which the presence of UN peace-keeping forces has had a somewhat beneficial effect.

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

The idea that Hezbollah is acting as an agent of Iran is very dubious. It's not accepted by specialists on Iran or specialists on Hezbollah. But it's the party line. Or sometimes you can put in Syria, i.e. "Syrian-supported Hezbollah," but since Syria is of less interest now you have to emphasize Iranian support.

Unaccountable private power concentrations that dominate economic and social life have the means to seek to "regiment the public mind," and become "tools and tyrants" of government, in James Madison's memorable phrase, as he warned of the threats he discerned to the democratic experiment if private powers were granted free rein.

What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it.