Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

I don't see anything that's come out on WikiLeaks that was a legitimate secret.

The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and now the Americans.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function - that's important, and fine, and I support it.

One of the most interesting reactions to come out of 1968 was in the first publication of the Trilateral Commission, which believed there was a 'crisis of democracy' from too much participation of the masses.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's minuscule, few percent.