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"The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO."
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"In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays."
"It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power."
"Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer."
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"Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up."
"The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan."
"Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?"
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"People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich."
"I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends."
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