“Clinton, Kennedy, they all carried out mass murder, but they didn't think that that was what they were doing - nor does Bush. You know, they were defending justice and democracy from greater evils. And in fact I think you'd find it hard to discover a mass murderer in history who didn't think that.”

—  Noam Chomsky

Quotes 2000s, 2004, Interview by Wallace Shawn, 2004

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