"If you put your politicians up for sale,……" — Juan Cole
"If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them."
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21 Quotes by Juan Cole
Juan Cole has 21 quotes on this site.
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To the extent that the (ISIS's) advance is a series of urban revolts against the government of PM Nouri al-Maliki,…
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Mr. Bush, I don't recognize the world you paint. I find your speech a form of sheer propaganda, having almost…
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Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people…
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I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce…
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Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.
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I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was…
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My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no…
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An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the…
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I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law…
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I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not…
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I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.
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It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic…
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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
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I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these…
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I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college…
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Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream…
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Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its…
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No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.
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I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it.…
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In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it…
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