If the logic of capitalism is "expand or die," then either it has to die or the world has to die.

The US is indeed a terrorist nation. ...It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today.

Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.

One hundred years from now, we'll all be dead. It's hard to believe. One hundred years from now, everyone we see every day will be gone.

If you read the literature of Soviet Communism, you see a dogma that's chilling. On the other hand, if you read the literature of anti-communism, it's every bit as dogmatic.

[Students for a Democratic Society] it's a social democratic program.

Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President - that was exhilarating.