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Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult.

You know, frankly speaking, money just doesn't figure largely in my world view.

I am opposed to any state with an ethnic character, not only to Israel.

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

No doubt one can, in light of further study and life experience, come to repudiate past convictions.

Every victory of Hezbollah, I celebrate.

War is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars.

The real goal of politics has to be getting people to act on what they already know was wrong.

International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.

I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.

Teaching is in my bones. I love to teach.

The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.

I focus on my work. If I let myself get distracted by the insults and slanders I wouldn't get anything substantive done.

They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians

Given the nonsense that is turned out daily by the Holocaust industry, the wonder is that there are so few skeptics.

I don't want to pretend to be a prophet or a saint. I'm very conscious of my limitations. I know my flaws. But I don't like lying.

The whole purpose of annual reviews is to keep you abreast of whether or not you are fulfilling the requirements of tenure.

I don't want to become a rhetorical speaker. My effectiveness is mastering all of the data and being able to respond.

Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.

Israel has come out of the boils of the hell, a satanic state.

Israel has been a stage on which American Jews have played out their fantasies of toughness - often from Martha's Vineyard.

I'm an old fan of the Negro spirituals.

The Holocaust industry has always been bankrupt. What remains is to openly declare it so. The time is long past to put it out of business.

I don't think it's a good thing to have Christian states, Muslim states, or any kind of ethnic states.