I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.

Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

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.

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.