NAFTA was much more popular among US corporations than GATT, because NAFTA is highly protectionist in ways that GATT is not.
Any coalition has its troubles, as every married man knows.
For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.
Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him the truth and he may still go wrong when he has the chance to be right, but give him no news or present him only with distorted and incomplete data, with ignorant, sloppy or biased reporting, with propaganda and deliberate falsehoods, and you destroy his whole reasoning processes, and make him something less than a man.
I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.
All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.
Freedom of the press, or, to be more precise, the benefit of freedom of the press, belongs to everyone – to the citizen as well as the publisher… The crux is not the publisher’s ‘freedom to print’; it is, rather, the citizen’s ‘right to know. ’
The man who knows his limitations, has none.
I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.
In short, it occurred to me that perhaps the only possible avant garde is the avant garden.
For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.