The U.S. should come out openly and say to the world, "We are the only imperial power, and we're going to rule you, and if you don't like it you can lump it."

The United States is now The Empire. There isn't an empire; there's The Empire, and that empire is the United States.

There are different versions of Islam... it is meaningless to claim to speak in the name of a ‘real’ Islam.

I think to compare Germany to the Third Reich is utterly ludicrous.

The current Eurozone is obviously dysfunctional. And serious people within Germany and elsewhere know this to be the case and know things cannot function this way forever.

The sobbing of the weak today is the sobbing of the victims of neoliberal policies. They consist of billions of people all over the world.

I think the big tragedy of the Cuban Revolution was that it became dependent on the Soviet Union, and it became dependent on the Soviet Union under a very reactionary bureaucratic regime led by Leonid Brezhnev.