The task is to keep the lost opportunities of the past alive.

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.

Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished.

After many years of thinking, reading and writing and looking, I came to believe that there are two basic, essential values which are indispensable for humane, decent, dignified life: one is freedom, and the other is security.

As to describing me as an outsider throughout, and an outsider through and through - I have no reason to disagree.

The art of walking on quicksand is still beyond me. What I learned is only how difficult this art is to master and how hard people need to struggle to learn it.