So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.