Juan Cole Quotes

• If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them.

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  Democracy, Doe, Politician

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• Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

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  Classroom, Partisan Politics, Partisans

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• It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

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  Party, Class, Academic

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• Did you know that they introduced the 15 percent flat tax on individual and corporate income in Iraq? Something that some politicians very much wanted to push in the United States without success but in Iraq they do it.

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  Iraq, United States, Income

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• I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously.

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  Taken, Thinking, Wings

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• I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.

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  Thinking, Important, Debate

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• Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition.

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  Country, Tricky, Propositions

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• I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years.

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  Years, World, Muslim World

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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.

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  War, Iraq, Administration

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• I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and incompetent. I said this very forthrightly to the senators.

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  Believe, Law, Iraq

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• An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.

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  Strong, Character, Law

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• 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.

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  Gobierno, Personas, Política

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• 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.

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  Past, News, Exit

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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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  Pigs, Use, Administration

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• 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.

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  Aunt, People, Middle East

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• Mr. Bush, I don't recognize the world you paint. I find your speech a form of sheer propaganda, having almost no relationship to reality. ...You can't 'stay the course' because you don't have a course.

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  Reality, Political, World

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• En la medida en que el avance (del ISIS) sea una serie de revueltas urbanas contra el gobierno del primer ministro Nouri al-Maliki, Estados Unidos acabaría bombardeando a la gente corriente de las ciudades. Para Estados Unidos, bombardear ciudades suníes todos estos años después en nombre del Sr. al-Maliki sería invitar al terrorismo contra Estados Unidos.

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  Military, Iraq, Government

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