Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

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.

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience otherwise the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders and it can spread to important places.

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

It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.

Women taking care of children . . . it makes sense to pay them for that work . . . they should be paid for it, but that requires tax payments. And the same is true about protection of the environment.

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