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It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it.

This war in Iraq is part of a larger effort to remove this terrorist threat from the planet.

Well, you know, they were - they were a terrorist group. They - when I was kidnapped they published all of their statements about their war that they declared on the United States.

If an original piece of wardrobe came up from Star Wars, I'd probably spend a lot of money on it.

Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens.

The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book about a school boy turned into a soldier overnight.

He hated the war; it threatened much more than his lifestyle or peace of mind. It continually destroyed the world of the imagination, the only world where he felt happy.

If you make a 'Star Wars' reference, everybody's familiar with that. It's a common reference that most people can relate to - 'Bartleby, The Scrivener,' probably not so much.

All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments.

This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.

I find it hard myself to feel justified to sing in a very politically direct way about war or social conditions because I feel so ignorant of a lot of it.

If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.

My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly, . . . [in] weeks rather than months.

There is, then, a link between the logistics of perception, the wars in Lebanon and the Gulf as well as with CNN and the Pentagon.

This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . .

There will never be a nuclear war; there's too much real estate involved.

The whole drug war is nothing but a pretext to increase police power and personnel, and that, of course, is dead wrong. So many created imagined drug offenses.

Writing about a war will always be political writing, no matter what amount of hermetical hide-and-seek or aesthetical operations are involved.

That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.

Liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be. And it goes through my adventures with the FBI during the anti-war period and the civil rights period.

Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.

I am a tremendous 'Star Wars' fan; I know the story means an enormous love to me. I love the characters.

Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off.

I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights movement.