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I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.
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The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are
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The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half…
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No matter how many toys we amass we leave them behind when we die, just as we leave a broken environment, an…
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I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we…
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But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had to be told because what happened at…
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Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing.
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I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely…
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These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would…
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This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud,…
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When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my…
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And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn't buy.…
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I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.
— Hugo Chavez
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The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Imperial politics represents the conquest of domestic politics and the latter's conversion into a crucial element of inverted totalitarianism. It makes no…
— Chalmers Johnson
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American Empire- it is an empire that lacks the drive to export its capital, its people and its culture to those backward…
— Niall Ferguson
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New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice, not Milan while the American empire careens onward…
— Bernard DeVoto
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The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.
— Michael Mandelbaum
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With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush,…
— Justin Sane
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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
— Gore Vidal
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Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the…
— Nouriel Roubini
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Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, without a power to array…
— Oliver Ellsworth
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Basically, what Economic Hit Men are trained to do is to build up the American empire. To create situations where as many…
— John Perkins
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