Adam Smith is an egalitarian, he believed in equality of outcome, not opportunity. He is an enlightenment figure, pre-capitalist. He says, suppose in England, one landowner got most of the land and other people would have nothing to live on. He says it wouldn't matter much, because the rich land owner, by virtue of his sympathy for other people would distribute resources among them, so that by an invisible hand, we would end up with a pretty egalitarian society. That is his conception of human nature.

Women didn't have rights. Under British common law, women were property.

They [the union] were members of the Communist Party - they didn't care one way or another about Russia, they just cared about the United States.

The [Ronald] Reagan administration told the business world that they were not going to enforce the labor laws.

The world was warned of extremely severe dangers unless urgent steps are taken to deal with global warming.

The first commitment is raise your salary. One of the ways to raise your salary sometimes is to have short-term profits but there are many other ways.

The two tendencies are antithetical in significant respects. These are distinctions that should be kept in mind, however one feels that the problems and dilemmas that constantly arise should be resolved.