The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

The United States is like Count Dracula who at six o'clock in the morning has not sucked [any necks].

I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country - people without health insurance. The United States should stop being the empire and be concerned about other countries. You've got to be more worried about your own people.

Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation. If you really want to look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ -- who I think was the first socialist -- only socialism can really create a genuine society.

I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.

What you want is one thing, and what you cannot really obtain is another.

I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child from the provinces could go to the center of the country: through baseball, which was my dream.