[According to the rigid dogma] we have to believe the United States would have so-called liberated Iraq even if its main products were lettuce and pickles and the main energy resource of the world were in central Africa.

There are no conservatives in the United States. The United States does not have a conservative tradition. The people who call themselves conservatives, like the Heritage Foundation or Gingrich, are believers in -- are radical statists. They believe in a powerful state, but a welfare state for the rich.

The internet is something created largely by public funding.

The British had an even stronger [then America] business interest in Nazi Germany. And Benito Mussolini was greatly admired.

The worst drug of all by far is tobacco; the death toll from tobacco is just overwhelming.

Because the 1979 strike against U.S. Steel in Youngstown, Ohio was an occupation - and actually, that's a model that really should be pursued now.They went on from striking to trying to have the workforce and the communities take over the abandoned factories that U.S. Steel was dismantling.

There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail.