The United States is going to continue to punish Iran because of its defiance.

[Moral responsibilities] has nothing particular to do with academia, except insofar as those within it tend to be unusually privileged in the respects just mentioned.

Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.

They are involve in producing products and there are different kinds of people running them, but the principle is the same. A corporation shouldn't have the right. Under American law as its developed over the past century, corporation do have personal rights, but I think that's a very negative development.

In the United States everyone is an illegal immigrant - everyone except the people in Indian Reservations. This is an immigrant society.

In the US, first of all, the electoral system has been almost totally shredded. For a long time it's been pretty much run by private concentrated spending but now it's over the top. Elections increasingly over the years have been [public relations] extravaganzas.

If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.