And this from a Labour Government, the party that has traditionally seen the BBC as a bulwark against what it has often believed is a largely hostile national press".
"Historically, the government has often believed that anyone who is protesting government policy is doing it at the behest of a foreign government and opened counterintelligence investigations of them," Halperin said.
The world – the world, that is, as seen through the prism of the feverish imaginings of man – has often believed itself to be on the brink of an apocalypse, and never more so than at the turn of a new century or, better still, a new millennium – in spite of the fact that chronology itself is man-made.
"I have often said and continue to believe that promoting demand is the most critical short-run priority for the American economy.
Having stood by the bedside of many who are dying, I have often asked, "What do you believe happens after death?" Some are convinced of the eternity of the individual.
Watching Clinton campaign this time I have often wondered, does she herself still believe?
As Slaughter correctly points out, some men view the choice of spending more time with children as selfish, or believe, as I've often heard said, that men who choose to spend time with their kids over time at the office "don't want to earn a real living".
"The interviewers I face have often been hostile and, I believe, concerned about the amount of gray in my beard," he said to me.
"I have long believed and often written that the Guardian is the world's most interesting newspaper," said Wolff.
