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"Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and I had disagreed on the "roots" of September 11. I rush to agree. Here is what he told his audience at MIT on October 11:Clever of him to have spotted that (his favorite put-down is the preface 'Turning to the facts...') and brave of him to have taken such a lonely position. As he rightly insists, our disagreements are not really political."
"What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities."
"Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results."
"The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information."
"I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously."
"But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate."
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"There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical."
"There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention."
"There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners."
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