“Look, I love my wife, and she loves me, and that’s all that matters. Anyway, who’s going to believe the word of this whore against the word of a man who has been in government for ten years?” – John Profumo

“What this book brings to light is that the U.S. Military has conducted thousands of experiments exploring the use of ticks and tick-borne diseases as biological weapons, and in some cases, the agents escaped into the environment. The government needs to declassify the details of these open-air bioweapons experiments tests so that we can begin to repair the damage that these pathogens are inflicting on humans and animals in our ecosystem.”

“That is what the media is reflecting: the US official position. And it has been that way all along … when it comes to foreign policy there is a line. And that line is decided upon from above and passed on to the reporter. So when it comes to hotspots like Venezuela, where there is so much at stake from an idealogical viewpoint, even more so. It is as monolithic as you can get.” – Steve Ellner

“Really what Rupert Murdoch managed to do was break the civil compact of this country through achieving a degree of control over the essential institutions of a free society: the press, the police and the politicians.” – Carl Bernstein

“Why do I have more of a risk of telling her state secrets than anyone else? Either i’m qualified to handle state secrets or i’m not qualified to handle state secrets. I think I understand my responsibilities.” – Jared Kushner dismissing FBI warnings on his close relationship to suspected Chinese spy Wendi Deng

“systemic racism is, for a small number of people, enormously profitable.”