It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.

One of the reasons why this country undertook military action in Iraq was that there are quite a few problems here, and perhaps attention needed to be deflected from those problems. It sometimes seems that the U.S. economy works successfully only if it gets a stimulus from the defense industry. So perhaps in addition to showing the power and the might of the United States internationally, another reason was to help the defense industry and to help the U.S. economy recover.

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

Americans have a severe disease - worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex.

We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.

When future generations judge those who came before them on environmental issues, they may conclude "they didn't know": let us not go down in history as the generations who knew, but didn't care

The threat of a world war is no more.