Paul Craig Roberts Quotes

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

It seems not to matter that we are at the brink of a war that may spread beyond Afghanistan and Iraq to Iran and Georgia and then where? To Syria? To North Korea? To China? That we in America are in economic doldrums and are seeing small businesses fold and houses reclaimed by banks and a smouldering panic that is palpable everywhere.

The Middle East conflict has become the locus of the final war between Muslims and the West

ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.

If the war on terror is endless, you could forget about democracy.

The United States has been essentially engaged in an ongoing war that most people date from 2001. That war has taken us to Afghanistan, to Iraq, in a lesser way to other countries - Libya, Somalia, Yemen.

The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now & with somebody & and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

Wall Street is a huge issue. And it's controlling our lives today with this so-called election - we really have no choice. We're really just onlookers. The national surveillance state has not been debated by any candidates, Democratic or Republican. Our wars, our repeated wars - our new war in Syria has not been brought up because everyone agrees essentially that we have to continue doing what we're doing. And maybe even now go back to Libya.

One thing about a police state, you can always find the police.

We declared war on terror-it's not even a noun, so, good luck.

I really wanted to talk about the War on Terror and say that both sides were completely incompetent [in addressing it]. You can't blame the other side when you're involved in it.

The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.

A policemans job is only easy in a police state.

Everywhere we look we see the encroaching shadow of the police state.

I think it was Osama bin Laden's [idea to start a pre-emptive war in Iraq].

The President reminded us that the war in Iraq is a central battlefield in the war on terror that began the morning of September the 11th.

I understand, probably more than anyone, what a threat Iraq was and the people that threatened Iraq was. I was beneath the towers on September 11th when they fell. And I -- again, I just -- I want to thank the President for the honor in allowing me to go there, because I lost 23 people. I wear this memorial band for the 23 I lost.

The State has always one purpose: to limit, control, subordinate the individual and subject him to the general purpose Through its censorship, its supervision, and its police the State tries to obstruct all free activity and sees this repression as its duty, because the instinct of self-preservation demands it. The State does not permit me to use my thoughts to their full value and communicate them to other men unless they are its own Otherwise it shuts me up.

Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.

Capitalism in its imperialistic stage is a system which regards war as a legitimate method for solution of international disputes - a method which is legitimate in fact if not legally so.

I supported the war in Afghanistan because 3000 of our people were murdered and I thought we had a right to defend the people of the United States.

They [terrorists] have declared war on us and we need to have a serious strategy to destroy ISIS.

When a leader has deployed a private army, that is one definition of a police state. Another is when the president, or a leader, has his own treasury.

We need to focus on destroying ISIL, but we shouldn't be the ones declaring that [Bashir] Assad must go.

The kind of problem that America faces in Iraq is a little bit the kind of problem that Israel faced in dealing with Hezbollah. If the conflict, the theater of conflict enlarges, it's going to become more and more absorbing and more and more costly.