Paul Craig Roberts Professions : Economist Born : April 3, 1939 Browse All Authors Top 65 quotes by Paul Craig Roberts Americans need to understand that they have lost their country. The rest of the world needs to recognize that Washington is not merely the most complete police state since Stalinism, but also a threat to the entire world. The hubris and arrogance of Washington, combined with Washington's huge supply of weapons of mass destruction, make Washington the greatest threat that has ever existed to all life on the planet. Washington is the enemy of all humanity. Paul Craig Roberts mass-destruction life country The United States has entered the ranks of the failed states. One of the most remarkable manifestations of a failed state is that the criminals are all inside the government operating against the people, whereas in a normal state, the criminals are on the outside of the government, operating against it. So, we now have every manifestation of being a failed state, with the government in the hands of a few Wall Street gangsters. Paul Craig Roberts wall government hands The only thing that can be expected from the next US president is more war, more murder, and more oppression of the gullible American people. People as uninformed and as gullible as Americans have no future. Americans are a dead people that history is about to run over. Paul Craig Roberts running war people Americans have no idea why they have been at war in the Middle East, Asia and Africa for a decade. They don't realize that their liberties have been supplanted by a Gestapo Police State. Few understand that hard economic times are here to stay. Paul Craig Roberts police war ideas A true patriot does not confuse government with country. A patriot's loyalty is to his country, and loyalty to country requires holding government accountable. Paul Craig Roberts loyalty government country The tax that was supposed to soak the rich has instead soaked America. The beneficiary of the income tax has not been the poor, but big government. The income tax has given us a government bureaucracy that outnumbers the manufacturing work force. It has created welfare dependencies that have entrapped millions of Americans in an underclass that is forced to live a sordid existence of trading votes for government handouts. Paul Craig Roberts income government america The US is not a superpower. The US is a financially dependent country that foreign lenders can close down at will. Washington still hasn’t learned this. American hubris can lead the administration and Congress into a bailout solution that the rest of the world, which has to finance it, might not accept. Paul Craig Roberts might country world Americans think their danger is terrorists. They don't understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution.... The terrorists are not anything like the threat we face from our own government in the name of fighting terrorism.... The American constitutional system is near to being overthrown Paul Craig Roberts fighting rights thinking Washington's Corruption and Mendacity Is What Makes America 'Exceptional' Paul Craig Roberts mendacity corruption america For reporting a scientific finding, I was called a 'conspiracy theorist.' Only in America is scientific analysis seen as conspiracy theory and government lies as truth. Paul Craig Roberts government-lies lying america Terrorists can endanger some of us, but the war on terror endangers us all. How much more can the Constitution be diminished before it is completely replaced by arbitrary government power? Paul Craig Roberts arbitrary government war No one outside America any longer believes the US media or the US government... You can't believe a word the American media says. If they say anything correct, it's just an accident. Paul Craig Roberts media government believe People, and not only Americans, are losing their sons, husbands, brothers, and fathers for no other reason than the profits of US armaments corporations, and the gullible American people seem proud of it. Those ribbon decals on their cars, SUVs and monster trucks proclaim their naive loyalty to the armaments industries and to the whores in Washington who promote wars. Paul Craig Roberts husband loyalty brother There are now 17,000 local American police forces that are armed with rocket launchers, bazookas, heavy machine guns, all kinds of chemical sprays, in fact some of them have tanks. You now have local police departments that are equipped beyond the standard of American heavy infantry. Paul Craig Roberts police gun historical When the world looks at America, what it sees is an Israeli colony. Paul Craig Roberts america looks world A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world. Paul Craig Roberts democracy liberty country I never believed 9/11, because I had engineering training at GA Tech, and I could tell when a building is being blown up by explosives. Any fool can look at those films and see the buildings aren't falling down, they're blowing up. Paul Craig Roberts engineering training fall In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense. Paul Craig Roberts giving-money compassion mean Tariffs protect ill-considered government policies, such as costly regulations and high taxes on labor and capital that make our goods uncompetitive in international markets. Paul Craig Roberts tariffs regulation government The great paradox of the civil rights revolution is that instead of enforcing and expanding equality before the law, the revolution created differential rights based on race, gender and, any day now, sexual orientation. The great liberal revolution, centuries in the making, that brought forth equality in law has been overthrown. In its place we see rising a new feudal legal order of status-based rights. Paul Craig Roberts race rights order Similar Authors Bryan Caplan economist Burton Malkiel economist Bruno Frey economist Brian Wesbury economist Branko Milanovic economist Andrew Samwick economist All Authors
