If you're in a system where you must make profit in order to survive. You are compelled to ignore negative externalities, effects on others.

In the case of Yugoslavia v. NATO, one of the charges was genocide. The U.S. appealed to the court, saying that, by law, the United States is immune to the charge of genocide, self-immunized, and the court accepted that, so the case proceeded against the other NATO powers but not against the United States.

The Soviet Union was pretty much what Lenin and Trotsky said it was.

[My father] came over as an immigrant and didn't know any English. He went to work at a sweat shop in Baltimore. He told me later that this guy was coming around, and the guy seemed to be for the workers, so he signed up. It turned out that guy was an IWW organizer . My father didn't regret signing up; he just really didn't know what was going on.

The capacity to transfer production elsewhere is a weapon against the Western workers.

I listen to talk radio a lot and it's kind of interesting. If you can sort of suspend your knowledge of the world and just enter into the world of the people who are calling in, you can understand them.

I do not feel that we should set up PEOPLE as "models"; rather actions, thoughts, principles.