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

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

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.

The "coalition against terrorism" means the United States. It does not wish anyone else to interfere with its strategy.

Time doesn't heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them.

Let go of your pain and heal your wounds.

Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.

Where there is great love there are always wishes.

The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.

One of the very important ideas of feminism for me has always been women helping and supporting each other.

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

[A]lthough a republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.

Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.

The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being.