Any little issue - Miss Universe, or whatever it may be - [Donald Trump] is completely unpredictable, he'll go off into outer space.

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

Part of the uprising of Latin America, particularly in the last 10 to 15 years, has been a reaction to [neoliberal regime], and they have thrown out a lot of these measures and moved in a different direction. In earlier years, the US would have overthrown the governments or, one way or another, curtailed them. Now, it can't do that.

Whether the person should then be called "an intellectual" seems to reduce the issue to a question of terminology.

Nothing can justify crimes such as those of September 11, but we can think of the United States as an innocent victim only if we adopt the convenient path of ignoring the record of its actions and those of its allies, which are, after all, hardly a secret.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

I don't entirely agree with the slogan "speaking truth to power."