I divide the world into learners and non-learners.

Civility is a work of the imagination, for it is through the imagination that we render others sufficiently like ourselves for them to become subjects of tolerance and respect, if not always affection.

Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.

Consumer sales depend on the habits and behaviors of consumers, and those who manipulate consumer markets cannot but address behavior and attitude. That is presumably the object of the multibillion-dollar global advertising industry. Tea drinkers are improbable prospects for Coke sales.

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and failures...I divide the world into the learners and non-learners.

9/11 was a signal that we were living in a new world - a world of interdependence, a world in which people could attack the United States not from the outside, but from the inside. It was a sign that the United States, the most powerful country in the world, could watch the cathedral of capitalism at the Trade Center and the heart of its defense at the Pentagon be struck internally, not really across borders, so that borders don't matter anymore.

Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.