The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.

Every great power, every aggressive power has always regarded itself as exceptional and as doing things only for the most moral ends.

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

Now, you ban not the whole Muslim world. You ban seven states, seven states that have not been responsible for a single terrorist act. Those are the seven [Donald Trump] banned. But, you leave the ones that really are responsible, like Saudi Arabia, which is the center for propaganda and funding and so on for radical Islamic Jihadism, well you can't touch them because of business interests, also they have oil and so on and so forth.

In fact, there is a very close correlation between human rights violations and US aid, particularly in Latin America.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

I think the activism of the 1960s had a very definite civilizing effect on the whole society in all kinds of ways. So lots of things that by now are almost taken for granted were heretical in the 1960s. We had anti-sodomy laws until not many years ago.