The idea that you have to drop any thing that you might be interested in doing because you have to pass that test tomorrow and it's something that you're not interested in, that's just the opposite of education. It's also harming teaching, because the teachers are evaluated by the results of the test.

There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind

The change between horse and buggy to automobile is a big change and there hasn't been a major change since.

[After Vietnam] the type of interventions that are carried out are designed so as not to elicit public reactions.

Real wages for male workers in the United States are about what they were in the '60s.

In the major state capitalists economies, Europe and the US, it's low growth and stagnation and a very sharp income differentiation a shift - a striking shift - from production to financialization.

The US is a business-run huckster society, and its primary value is deceit.