Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let's get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don't want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water.

As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.

There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.