If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

The senate was wealthy people and it wasn't elected, it was chosen through legislatures, which themselves were under private influence, powerful influence. They were remote from the population and that's where power was suppose to reside.

The indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they’re being objective.

[Moral responsibilities] has nothing particular to do with academia, except insofar as those within it tend to be unusually privileged in the respects just mentioned.

Politicians don't want democracy here in America, why would they want it in the Middle East?