You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't.

The parties with the most gain never show up on the battlefield.

Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.

Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.

I don't think there could've been a pitch as crass as Trump's 'I can fix America because I'm rich' without that groundwork laid by Davos and the Clinton Global Initiative.

Even 1 murdered person is always somebody’s one and the only beloved… and for somebody the end of his life is the end of the whole existence too… so, please, stop it! I'm calling for Peace and Freedom! Amen!