"Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that."

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"Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that."

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"I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print."

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"What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet."

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"What is not fair now is that corporations pay less and less tax, which means that you and I pay more because we're rooted somewhere, they've got our address, right?"

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"Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy."

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"I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol."

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"Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt."

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"Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children."

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"The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?"

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"I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this."

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"How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally."

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