When some people ask me about voting, they would say will you support this candidate or that candidate? I say: "I will support this candidate for one minute that I am in the voting booth. At that moment I will support A versus B, but before I am going to the voting booth, and after I leave the voting booth, I am going to concentrate on organizing people and not organizing electoral campaign."

It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.

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.

Even if you assume presidents were democratically elected they still have no right to keep secrets from the American people.

Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that we are all creatures vulnerable to new thoughts, new attitudes. And while such vulnerability creates all sorts of possibilities, both good and bad, its very existence is exciting. It means that no human being should be written off, no change in thinking deemed impossible.

It is no longer simply the merchant prince, or the aristocratic monopoly, or even the employing class, that is exploiting the world: it is the nation, a new democratic nation composed of united capital and labor.

In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.