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Yes, and Syrians. There is a horrible crisis there and the United States has admitted virtually none of the refugees.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
Under Clinton, the defiance of world order has become so extreme as to be of concern even to hawkish policy analysts.
After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn't even go to the classes.
As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties.
It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.
I don't see much use in general slogans. Sometimes it is worth resisting evil with lesser evil, very commonly in fact.
I doubt that national languages will disappear. In fact, to some extent they're becoming more diverse, like in Europe.
There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that's been going on since the Second World War.
If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be... a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces.
No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.
In fact, the capitalist class in the '50s was sort of part of a social contract. It was part of the tenor of the times.
Maybe the science is uncertain, maybe we don't have to worry about it. Climate change is the worst, but there's others.
Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.
I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.
There certainly are those who worship the state much as divinities are worshipped. Not just the state but even leaders.
Education is not for profit. If you're not in education for profit, it's not going to be a fair critique for education.
If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.
Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's minuscule, few percent.
Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you — the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends.
Nicaragua was destabilizing Central America, meaning moving in a direction the US didn't like. So Nicaragua was crushed.
In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'
When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn't producing any more.
If we move toward the weaponisation of space, we can bid farewell to the planet. The chances of survival are very slight.
The basic principle, rarely violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and privilege does not exist.
Organization and education, when they interact with each other, they strengthen each other, they are mutually supportive.
Technology can also be used so that private individuals will have access to the way centralized decisions are being made.
Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated - Japan's attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.
Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb.
Donald Trump speaks extemporaneously, often through stream of consciousness, where it doesn't seem to follow a trajectory.
The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.
Where are the drug cartels getting their weapons? They are being provided by the United States. Cut off that flow of arms.
Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.
Very urgent measures need to be taken, and without much delay, in dealing with the ongoing destruction of the environment.
When I am at home, I never watch TV, but when I am abroad in a hotel I take a look at the BBC to find out what's going on.
History records endless struggles to enlarge those realms, inspiring ones; it also records painful reversals and setbacks.
People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction.
The educational system is pretty much geared to passing the next exam. You're educated to pass tests and not to understand.
We know that someone who has channeled his anger into something constructive has not had a cow. How do we know these things?
Julian Assange shouldn't be the subject of a grand jury hearing, he should be given a medal. He's contributing to democracy.
The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have.
NAFTA was much more popular among US corporations than GATT, because NAFTA is highly protectionist in ways that GATT is not.
It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real world is.
In the United States, and to a certain extent in Canada, there's very little interest in what happens outside their borders.
There are many cases around the world in which the presence of UN peace-keeping forces has had a somewhat beneficial effect.
Intellectuals (in the standard sense of the term, not [ Edward] Said's prescriptive sense) are the people who write history.
The British had an even stronger [then America] business interest in Nazi Germany. And Benito Mussolini was greatly admired.
In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.
When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University - that I don't like.