I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function - that's important, and fine, and I support it.

I had no expectations about Barack Obama and I'm not in the least disillusioned.

Nothing is more inspiring to see how poor and suffering people, living under conditions incomparably worse than we endure, continue quietly and unpretentiously with courageous and committed struggle for justice and dignity.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.

A good American friend of mine who has lived in India for many years, working as a journalist, was recently denied entry to the country because he wrote on Kashmir. This is a reflection of fractures within society. Pakistan, too, has to focus on the Lashkar [Lashkar-i-Taiba] and other similar groups and work towards some sort of sensible compromise on Kashmir.

Free markets are based on the free circulation of labor. If you don't have free circulation of labor, you don't have free markets.