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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 a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs."
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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
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"The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens."
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"If you have any hate in your heart, you will not be able to create a society that is just."
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"The journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!"
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"In every city you go, you will come across men of different kinds and you are the one to choose where your to belong."
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"The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men, only the clean can wash the grimy!"
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"What the new government of Nigeria and other African governments must do, is to start a massive reorientation campaign in the culture of the dignity of labour."
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"To Have Thousands Transformed In The Society Is To Lack Unity."
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"Labor law violations are alive and well in the USA."
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"We understand the ordinary business of living, We know how to work the machine."
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"I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought."
War
"I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates."
Policy
"I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian."
Reading
"I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs."
Society
"My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me."
Time
"Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty."
Time
"I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research."
Government
"Partisan politics has no place in the classroom."
Politics
"Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is."
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"For instance, I was a little surprised that the Shiites didn't rise up against Saddam and the Baath party across most of the country when the Americans moved in March and April of 2003."
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