You win by struggle, and that requires understanding and serious analysis of the options and the circumstances, and then you can do a lot.

[Donald Trump] guru Steve Bannon is worse, he's much scarier. He probably knows what he's doing.

The drug problem is in the United States, not in Mexico. It's a demand problem and that is to be dealt with here, and it is not being dealt with. It's been shown over and over that prevention and treatment are far more cost effective than police action, out-of-country action, border control, and so on.

Thanh Hoa itself is a rich agricultural province. Rice fields, a pattern of many shades of green, stretch far into the distance along the road, which also winds through foothills and the fringes of heavy jungle where tigers are said to roam. The vegetation, wild or cultivated, is lush.

You can’t have meaningful political democracy without functioning economic democracy.

The reason I am a political radical is that I work on syntax. If I worked on semantics (which in fact I do), I'd be a good Thatcherite.

I know of people whose actions and words I admire and respect. Some are called "intellectuals," some are not.