The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also does enough for small property owners, for middle-income mechanics and farmers, to build a broad base of support. The slightly prosperous people who make up this base of support are buffers against the blacks, the Indians, the very poor whites. They enable the elite to keep control with a minimum of coercion, a maximum of law--all made palatable by the fanfare of patriotism and unity.

People should go where they are not supposed to go, say what they are not supposed to say, and stay when they are told to leave.

Yes, we're dreamers. We want it all. We want a peaceful world. We want an egalitarian world. We don't want war. We don't want capitalism. We want a decent society.

The cry of the poor is is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.

Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.

I do take the threat of terrorism seriously. You cannot eliminate that threat or diminish that threat by bombing a country.

I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence.