It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it.

If you want to talk about distributing substances that are lethal, . . . let's be serious. Tobacco is far ahead of anything else. Alcohol is second.

My grandchildren are on social media all the time, and they think they have friends. But it's not what I would've called a friend, ever.

As far as DSA is concerned, I'm perfectly happy to be associated with it while disagreeing with a large part of the leadership.

Sometimes the former forces are in the ascendance, and "democratic governance" is eroded, though anyone familiar with intellectual history would expect that the slogans will be passionately proclaimed as they are drained of substantive content. We happen to be living in such an era, but as often before, there is no reason to suppose that the process is irreversible.

What is important to us is to reverse the shameful course being pursued by America. It won't be easy, but it must and can be done.

[There is] is all part of the whole neoliberal shift in the economy. But the parties have shifted to the right.