Cullen Hightower

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.

Capitalists can buy themselves out of any crisis, so long as they make the workers pay

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support.

I’m not sorry. I will never be sorry. I would do everything I did again if I had to. Everything.

Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

The only way we could get what most of the population wants with regard to health care is either by a large-scale popular movement, which would mean moving towards democracy and nobody in power is going to want that, or else if the business community decides that it’s good for them.

The financial industry, that means Goldman Sachs, if managed properly, will calculate the potential cost to itself if a loan goes bad, but not the impact on the financial system, which can be severe. This inherent deficiency of markets is well known.

It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions – you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.

We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated.

In fact, only two groups are allowed to be class-conscious in the United States. One of them is the business community, which is rabidly class-conscious…The other group is the high planning sectors of the government.

Labour has the responsibility to give a lead where the government will not. We need to bring people together, hold the government to account, oppose austerity and set out a path to exit that will protect jobs and incomes.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

The profusion of government … [has] retarded the natural progress.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

From the beginning, we failed to overcome Europe’s division. The Berlin Wall fell, but invisible walls were moved to the East of Europe. This has led to mutual misunderstandings and assignments of guilt. They are the cause of all crises ever since.