All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that th… - Noam Chomsky

I think that’s a terrific technique of propaganda. To impose concision is a way of virtually guaranteeing that the party line gets repeated over and over again, and that nothing else is heard.

Stability means we run it. There are countries that are very stable. Cuba is stable, but that's not called stability.

I mentioned the Magna Carta. That's the foundations of modern law. We will soon be commemorating the 800th anniversary. We won't be celebrating it – more likely interring what little is left of its bones after the flesh has been picked off by Bush and Obama and their colleagues in Europe.