The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have.

We [ with Edward Herman] believe that the empirical evidence we review there - and elsewhere, in a great deal of joint and separate work - lends substantial support to the conclusions; whether that is true is for others to judge.

If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.

Going back to why people don't vote, I presume the main reason is because they understand without reading political science texts that it doesn't make any difference how they vote. It's not going to affect policy, so why bother?

If kids are studying for a test, they're not going to learn anything. We all know that from our own experience.

I was in Mexico City. It's a very pleasant city in many ways. It's vibrant, lively, pretty exciting society, but also depressing in other ways, and sometimes almost hopeless, you know. So it's a combination of vibrancy and, I wouldn't say despair, but hopelessness, you know. Doesn't have to be, but it is. I mean, there is almost no economy.

The whole basis for the US intervention in Colombia is outrageously racist and arrogant.