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"If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job."
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"There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things."

"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?"

"If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees."

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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."

"Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration."

"I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later."

"I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let's get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don't want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water."
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