There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind

The Irish sea is a chasm, and it just depends who's been holding the whip for 800 years and who's been under it for 800 years.

Well, they really didn't have to worry, because the way power politics works, the World Court can't do anything. Look, there's one country in the world at the moment which has refused to accept World Court decision-that's the United States. Is anybody going to do anything about it?

[ Republican Party] is correctly described as a "radical insurgency" by one of the leading conservative commentators, Norman Ornstein.

A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.

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.