"The United States is not a democracy, it's a corporatocracy."

"The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself."

"The people who are running the world are not interested in democracy."

"That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital."

"It is not a matter of 'speaking truth to power.' It is a matter of speaking truth to the people."