We should not want to permit providers, for example to have control over access.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.

There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people could be an electoral base to keep them in power.

Every night I get many letters, and after every talk I get many questions from people who say, "I want to change things. What can I do?" I never hear these questions from peasants in southern Colombia or Kurds in southeastern Turkey under miserable repression or anybody who is suffering. They don't ask what they can do; they tell you what they're doing.

There are many cases around the world in which the presence of UN peace-keeping forces has had a somewhat beneficial effect.

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.