Intellectuals (in the standard sense of the term, not [ Edward] Said's prescriptive sense) are the people who write history.

If the United States is accommodating, the North Koreans become accommodating. If the United States is hostile, they become hostile.

States are not moral agents.

I think there is a good reason why the propaganda system works that way. It recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies. Therefore it is important to prevent any knowledge or understanding of them.

You know, you can go to the fiftieth thing on a Google list and that's the one you want, but the ones you are going to be directed to are the funders.

We don't live in tyrannies, you know, the king doesn't decide what's legitimate, and there's much more freedom than there was in the past.

Most of what is done I think is to kept secret so the public won't know. The same is true of what Wikileaks exposed.