Paul Craig Roberts Quotes

Humans regard animals as worthy of protection only when they are on the verge of extinction.

- Paul Craig Roberts

The Golden Rule is to 'do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' Allegedly, America is a Christian country. This means that Christian America is following Jesus' Sermon on the Mount in a masochistic way.

- Paul Craig Roberts

Hillary Clinton, an agent for the Oligarchy, was defeated despite the vicious media campaign against Donald Trump. This shows that the media and the political establishments of the political parties no longer have credibility with the American people.

- Paul Craig Roberts

Trump has more understanding and insight than his opponents realize. For a man such as Trump to risk acquiring so many powerful enemies and to risk his wealth and reputation, he had to have known that the people's dissatisfaction with the ruling establishment meant he could be elected president.

- Paul Craig Roberts

The Western media is a Ministry of Truth that operates full-time in support of the artificial existence that Westerners live inside The Matrix where Westerners exist without thought. Considering their inaptitude and inaction, Western peoples might as well not exist.

- Paul Craig Roberts

On one hand, our food is polluted with herbicides and on the other hand by antibiotics. And then we have hormones and pesticides.

- Paul Craig Roberts

Elephants are magnificient creatures.

- Paul Craig Roberts

Putin does not lie. When he says something, he means it.

- Paul Craig Roberts

Putin responds to threats, to illegal sanctions, and to incessant propaganda with statements that governments need to respect each other's national interests and to work together for common benefit. No politician in the West speaks in this way.

- Paul Craig Roberts

The road to economic well-being is to reward productive economic activity and to provide a moderate and predictable growth of money to finance real economic growth without reigniting the fires of inflation.

- Paul Craig Roberts

I have argued that the Soviet story is one of the interaction of speculative excess or utopian aspirations with refractory reality.

- Paul Craig Roberts

The Transatlantic and Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnerships have nothing to do with free trade. 'Free trade' is used as a disguise to hide the power these agreements give to corporations to use lawsuits to overturn sovereign laws of nations that regulate pollution, food safety, GMOs, and minimum wages.

- Paul Craig Roberts

The Soviet Union was a partial check on capitalist looting in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. However, with the Soviet collapse, capitalist looting intensified during the Clinton, Bush, and Obama regimes.

- Paul Craig Roberts

I have come to the conclusion that the West is a vast lie machine for the secret agendas of vested interests.

- Paul Craig Roberts

Paul Krugman, a professor at MIT and a consultant to the IMF, the World Bank, the United Nations, and the Trilateral Commission, is certainly a member of the establishment.

- Paul Craig Roberts

If the Obama regime gave a hoot about 'humanitarian crisis,' the Obama regime would not have orchestrated humanitarian crisis in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Yemen.

- Paul Craig Roberts

The government, of course, will print money to bail out the banks' uncovered casino bets, but not to bail out the elderly from the theft of their funds.

- Paul Craig Roberts

The public subsidies provided to miners, loggers, and ranchers are as extravagant and as harmful to the public interest as the subsidies that the Federal Reserve and Treasury provide to the 'banks too big to fail.'

- Paul Craig Roberts

When I was a young man, an individual with one million dollars was very rich. Anyone with a few millions more was considered richer than rich.

- Paul Craig Roberts

Many foolish people believe that nuclear war cannot happen, because there can be no winner. However, the American war planners, who elevated U.S. nuclear weapons from a retaliatory role to a pre-emptive first strike function, obviously do not agree that nuclear war cannot be won.

- Paul Craig Roberts

Vice is Washington's signature. A fish rots from the head, and Washington has led our country into vice, greed, selfishness, and the mockery and destruction of human life.

- Paul Craig Roberts

Progressives regard government as the white knight that protects the public from the greed of capitalists. If only.

- Paul Craig Roberts

Capitalists make money by exploiting labor and by externalizing the costs of the wastes produced by the productive process by imposing the wastes on the environment.

- Paul Craig Roberts

Beginning with the Clinton Administration and rapidly accelerating with the George W. Bush and Obama regimes and Tony Blair in England, the U.S. and U.K. governments have run roughshod over their accountability to law.

- Paul Craig Roberts

We need a memorial day to commemorate the victims of neoliberal globalization.

- Paul Craig Roberts

Jobs offshoring began with manufacturing, but the rise of the high-speed Internet made it possible to move offshore tradable professional skills, such as software engineering, information technology, various forms of engineering, architecture, accounting, and even the medical reading of MRIs and CT-Scans.

- Paul Craig Roberts

Offshoring manufacturing jobs left Americans with fewer high-value-added, well-paid jobs, and the U.S. middle class downsized. Ladders of upward mobility were taken down. Income and wealth distributions worsened.

- Paul Craig Roberts

The way to attack the entitlements problem is to bring the jobs home. This could be done by taxing corporations according to the location, domestic or foreign, at which they add value to their product.

- Paul Craig Roberts

Marxism is the only doctrine that both satisfies the demands for progress and provides a safe outlet for moral expression in a skeptical age.

- Paul Craig Roberts

Despite massive evidence to the contrary, libertarians hold tight to their romantic concept of capitalism, which, freed from government interference, serves the consumer with the best products at the lowest prices.

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When I met with Chinese policymakers in 2006, I advised them that there was a limit to how long they could rely on the U.S. consumer market, as jobs offshoring was destroying it.

- Paul Craig Roberts

Few, if any, corporations absorb the full cost of their operations. Corporations shove many of their costs onto the environment, the public sector, and distant third parties.

- Paul Craig Roberts

The Federal Trade Commission is supposed to enforce U.S. anti-trust law. Instead, the federal agency routinely violates U.S. anti-trust law by permitting monopoly concentrations of business interests.

- Paul Craig Roberts

Because of the failure of the federal government to enforce federal law, we now have 'banks too big to fail,' unregulated Internet monopoly, and the evisceration of a dispersed and independent media.

- Paul Craig Roberts

Marxism is a success because it fuses the two inconsistent strains in Western thought - moral skepticism and moral indignation - and makes them complements in the attack against existing society.

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Everyone who ever trusted Washington has been betrayed. Possibly there is an exception somewhere, but the betrayals are vast and are sufficient in number to define Washington as the least trusted entity on the earth.

- Paul Craig Roberts

It is impossible to work out a reduction in nuclear threat as long as one side is going all out to demonize the other.

- Paul Craig Roberts

It is the nature of government and of technology to establish control.

- Paul Craig Roberts

In 21st century America, capitalism has been unfettered from the regulations that democratized it and made it serve society.

- Paul Craig Roberts

Whether one has a favorable or unfavorable opinion of unions, their demise is also the demise of countervailing power. A system in which there is no countervailing power is a tyranny in which power is unconstrained and unaccountable.

- Paul Craig Roberts

Governments unaccountable to law are tyrannies, whatever they might call themselves, no matter how exceptional and indispensable they declare themselves to be.

- Paul Craig Roberts

The human capital of most macroeconomists, heavily invested in demand management, was wiped out by the policy failures of the 1970s.

- Paul Craig Roberts

Western capitalism is a looting mechanism. It loots labor. It loots the environment, and with the transpacific and transatlantic 'partnerships,' it will loot the sovereign law of countries.

- Paul Craig Roberts

The planet is being polluted with many forms of wastes.

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Clearly America is exceptional in its immorality, lack of human compassion, and disrespect for law and its founding document.

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The real Social Security crisis is that the government does not have the money to redeem its IOUs.

- Paul Craig Roberts

Under Reagan's policies, inflation and nominal GNP growth shriveled much faster than predicted, throwing off government revenue estimates and resulting in budget deficits.

- Paul Craig Roberts

The great problem with corporate capitalism is that publicly owned companies have short time horizons. Unlike a privately owned business, the top executives of a publicly owned corporation generally come to their positions late in life. Consequently, they have a few years in which to make their fortune.

- Paul Craig Roberts

If it turns out that global warming and ocean acidification are consequences of capitalism's carbon-based energy system, the entire world could end up dead from the external costs of capitalism.

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Both political parties, Republicans and Democrats, are dependent on the same private interest groups for campaign funds, so both parties dance to the same masters.

- Paul Craig Roberts

The neoconservative ideology supports American financial and military-political imperialism or hegemony.

- Paul Craig Roberts

By offshoring the production of their products, U.S. corporations transferred technology, physical plant, and business knowhow to China.

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The office of U.S. Trade Representative was created in order to permit corporations to write law that serves only their interests.

- Paul Craig Roberts

Corporations and Wall Street in pursuit of short-term profits have given the economy away.

- Paul Craig Roberts

The offshoring of American jobs by global corporations and the deregulation of the U.S. financial system have resulted in American economic failure.

- Paul Craig Roberts

In the United States, journalists receive awards for lying for the government and for the corporations.

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The financial markets are rigged by the big banks, the Federal Reserve, and the Treasury in the interests of the profits of the few big banks and the dollar's exchange value, which is the basis of U.S. power.

- Paul Craig Roberts

I have no sympathy for debunking human achievements that, in the end, gave ordinary people liberty.

- Paul Craig Roberts

If you want to learn real economics instead of neoliberal junk economics, read Michael Hudson's books.

- Paul Craig Roberts

In the U.S., society and the environment have to pick up the tab produced by capitalist activity.

- Paul Craig Roberts

Few Americans other than the One Percent have a stake in the American economic and political system.

- Paul Craig Roberts

Peace is costly to the profits of the military/security complex. Washington's gigantic military and security interests are far more powerful than the peace lobby.

- Paul Craig Roberts

The neoconservative doctrine declares that it is the principal goal of U.S. foreign policy to prevent the rise of any country that would have sufficient power to serve as a check on American unilateralism. This neoconservative doctrine puts Russia and China in Washington's crosshairs.

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Representing the people is not something 'our' representatives do. They are too busy representing a handful of private interest groups such as the financial sector, the military/security complex, and agribusiness.

- Paul Craig Roberts

The foreign policy of the United States rests entirely on propagandistic lies.

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A government that cannot survive truth and must resort to stamping out truth is not a government that any country wants.

- Paul Craig Roberts

The unambigious fact is that U.S. capitalism is a mechanism for looting the many for the benefit of the few.

- Paul Craig Roberts

The American people and the entire world need to understand that the threat to life on earth resides in Washington and that until Washington is fundamentally and totally changed, this threat will remain as the worse threat to life on earth.

- Paul Craig Roberts

Once a country descends into evil, it doesn't emerge.

- Paul Craig Roberts

There is no reason for a person to have thousands of millions of dollars.

- Paul Craig Roberts

Marx and Lenin were ahead of their time. Marx wrote before offshoring of jobs and the financialization of the economy. Lenin presided over a communist revolution that jumped the gun by taking place in a country in which feudal elements still predominated over capitalism.

- Paul Craig Roberts

Washington's impulsive use of power is a danger to America and to the world.

- Paul Craig Roberts

As the dollar's exchange value declines, so will the value of dollar-denominated financial instruments, regardless of how many bonds the Federal Reserve purchases.

- Paul Craig Roberts

In 2004, I predicted in a nationally televised conference in Washington, D.C., that the U.S. would be a Third World country in 20 years.

- Paul Craig Roberts

I did not think the Oligarchy would allow Trump to win. However, it seems that the oligarchs were deceived by their own media propaganda.

- Paul Craig Roberts

As the U.S. is import-dependent, this will translate into higher domestic prices.

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Every public institution in the United States and most private ones are corrupt.

- Paul Craig Roberts

Law is just one public institution, but it is a cornerstone of society. When law goes, everything goes.

- Paul Craig Roberts

If all countries are exceptional, the word loses its meaning.

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Washington is a black hole into which all sanity is sucked out of government deliberations.

- Paul Craig Roberts

There are no free financial markets in America or, for that matter, anywhere in the Western word, and few, if any, free markets of any other kind.

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Looting is the only way left for the Western financial system to make money.

- Paul Craig Roberts

God made a mistake when he gave to humans, infected as they are with evil, jurisdiction over Earth. He should have given jurisdiction to animals.

- Paul Craig Roberts

The U.S. is ruled by private interest groups and by the neoconservative ideology that history has chosen the U.S. as the 'exceptional and indispensable' country with the right and responsibility to impose its will on the world.

- Paul Craig Roberts

In the Matrix in which Americans live, nothing is ever their fault.

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Clearly what differentiates the U.S. from other countries is the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution defines us as a people. Without the Constitution, we would be a different country. Therefore, to lose the Constitution is to lose the country.

- Paul Craig Roberts

When America's Newspaper of Record is nothing but a propaganda ministry, what is America?

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People everywhere face the threat of control by government and technology.

- Paul Craig Roberts

There was no terrorism in the Middle East until Washington brought it there with invasions, bombings, and torture.

- Paul Craig Roberts

Globalism is a scheme for impoverishing First World labor and taking power and influence from the hands of the many and putting them in the hands of the few.

- Paul Craig Roberts

Clearly the climate is changing, whether caused by CO2 emissions or some other cause.

- Paul Craig Roberts

I have come to the conclusion that capitalism is successful primarily because it can impose the majority of the costs associated with its economic activities on outside parties and on the environment.

- Paul Craig Roberts

The propagandistic American 'media' and the crazed neoconservatives have set humanity on the path to destruction.

- Paul Craig Roberts

As truth is Washington's worst enemy, everyone associated with the truth is Washington's enemy.

- Paul Craig Roberts

War is the only destination to which Washington can lead.

- Paul Craig Roberts

The champions of globalism are the champions of America's destruction.

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The concentration of U.S. income and wealth in the hands of the very rich is a new development in my lifetime.

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There is no independent American print or TV media.

- Paul Craig Roberts

For a country to be looted, its people's voice must be silenced.

- Paul Craig Roberts