“When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban, ' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.”
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Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.