Paul Craig Roberts Quotes

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• As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse.
• A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world.
• In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense.
• A country in which 42% of the population is totally misinformed is not a country where democracy is safe.
• People, and not only Americans, are losing their sons, husbands, brothers, and fathers for no other reason than the profits of US armaments corporations, and…
• Americans need to understand that they have lost their country. The rest of the world needs to recognize that Washington is not merely the most…
• When the world looks at America, what it sees is an Israeli colony.
• There are now 17,000 local American police forces that are armed with rocket launchers, bazookas, heavy machine guns, all kinds of chemical sprays, in fact…
• There are enough fools in Washington to destroy the country without any help from Muslim terrorists.
• Americans think their danger is terrorists. They don't understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution.... The terrorists are…
• I never believed 9/11, because I had engineering training at GA Tech, and I could tell when a building is being blown up by explosives.…
• I don’t know why liberals want to disarm the law-abiding population, but I do know that not a single argument proffered stands the light of…
• The US is not a superpower. The US is a financially dependent country that foreign lenders can close down at will. Washington still hasn’t learned…
• Washington's Corruption and Mendacity Is What Makes America 'Exceptional'
• According to the Tax Foundation, the average American worker works 127 days of the year just to pay his taxes. That means that government owns…
• No one outside America any longer believes the US media or the US government... You can't believe a word the American media says. If they…
• The tax that was supposed to soak the rich has instead soaked America. The beneficiary of the income tax has not been the poor, but…
• Terrorists can endanger some of us, but the war on terror endangers us all. How much more can the Constitution be diminished before it is…
• Unequal group rights, the politics of redistribution and a Constitution whose meaning varies with changeable coalitions are a recipe for civil war.
• American liberty is being destroyed by Marxist doctrines that explain society in terms of hegemonic and oppressed groups - whether classes, races or genders -…

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