I think that so many of our abilities to do things depend on interaction with each other.

Opportunity could be defined in so many ways. There's one way of defining it, equality of opportunity, which is in fact the equality of capability, but the libertarians got there first and they have - like the Americans getting onto the moon, naming every crater after something like an astronaut - they have got there and named "opportunity" in a way that we cannot get ownership of now.

Human life depends not only on income but also on social opportunities, [for example] what the state does for educating.

Globalization is a complex issue, partly because economic globalization is only one part of it. Globalization is greater global closeness, and that is cultural, social, political, as well as economic.

Education can really transform the insecurities in the world into a bigger vision of what we are as human beings.

Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.

To say that certainly America was very lucky to get a large amount of land, and the native Indians were extremely unlucky to have white men coming over here, is one thing. But to say that the whole of the American prosperity was based on exploiting the indigenous population would be a great mistake.