The most interesting - in fact, inspiring - people I met there [Porto Alegre] are those who remain nameless: representatives of the international campesino movement, the East Timorese delegation,... - the usual heroes, who disappear, unknown, apart from the consequences of their work.

[Health-care system] is largely privatized and unregulated. So of course it's highly inefficient and costly.

I don't see much use in general slogans. Sometimes it is worth resisting evil with lesser evil, very commonly in fact.

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

They [unions] used straight Marxist rhetoric [in 1930s] - just the values were changed.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

Technology can be used that way and it can also be used in other ways.