We all have an enormous responsibility to bring to the attention of others information they do not have, which has the potential of causing them to rethink long-held ideas.

Why do we have to be a military superpower? Why can't we be a humanitarian superpower?

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.

The really critical thing isn't who's sitting in he White House, but who is sitting in the streets, in the cafeterias, in the halls of government, in the factories. Who is protesting, who is occupying offices and demonstrating ? - those are the things that determine what happens.

The only hope lies in the fact that the American people - like people everywhere - are basically decent people with common sense.

Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is a good end.

I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience... War is not inevitable, however persistent it is, however long a history it has in human affairs. It does not come out of some instinctive human need. It is manufactured by political leaders, who then must make a tremendous effort--by enticement, by propaganda, by coercion--to mobilize a normally reluctant population to go to war.