"That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital."

"It's a truism that almost any scientist will tell you: The more you know, the more you realize how much you don't know."

"The very fact that you're allowed to talk about it shows you what a free country this is. It's not."

"The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself."

"The media are corporations, they have an interest in selling a product, and the product is the audience."