I've called David Cameron worse things than joker....and a former Prime Minister Tony Blair is widely referred to as a war criminal.

We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.

The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.

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."

People are increasingly beginning to feel that democracy itself is being destroyed by this latest phase of globalization and that politics doesn't matter because it changes nothing.

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

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.

Even if you reject everything, it is always better to know what it is you are rejecting.

After flirting with neoisolationism, the U.S. is now deciding it wants to run the world.

American imperialism has always been the imperialism that has been frightened of speaking its name. Now it's beginning to do so. In a way, it's better. We know where we kneel.

Desperation is the result of globalization.

There are two kinds of cultures in this world: cultures where what you do matters and cultures where all that matters is who you are. You can be the former or you can suck.

Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea.

International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.

I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old.

I just go for what makes me feel good. Especially in 2011, it's so easy to sound like a dickhead when describing yourself because anything anyone says is a catch-word or a buzz-phrase.

A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better.

I need to treat everybody fairly, but fair doesn't always mean equal.

One of our predecessors said, "Throwing away the inexhaustible treasury of your own home, you go with your bowl from door to door, acting like a beggar"