That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything.

The UN can go as far as the U.S. will allow, and no further. And it's bound by conditions that the powerful states, which means mostly the U.S., impose.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

As in the past, the costs and risks of the coming phases of the industrial economy were to be socialized, with eventual profits privatized.

If there had been a charismatic figure in the United States who could mobilize fears, anger, racism, a sense of loss of the future that belongs to us, this country could be in real danger. We're lucky that there never has been an honest, charismatic figure. McCarthy was too much of a thug, you know? Nixon was too crooked. Trump, I think, is too much of a clown. So, we've been lucky.

The US health-care system is a complete scandal. It's got twice the costs of comparable countries and some of the worst outcomes.

There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism.