I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.

I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.

I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.

It hasn't been easy to find American citizens who are willing to pick fruit in 110 degree weather.

Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.

If envy were the cause of terrorism, Beverly Hills [and] Fifth Avenue ... would have become targets long ago.

If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.