"Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen."

"For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate."

"In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm."

"Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again."

"I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it."

"Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns."

"The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way."

"When women go wrong, men go right after them."