Peter Kuznick quotes:

China is doing a lot of things right that the United States is doing wrong.

A big part of the story is American imperialism, and the flip side of that is the building up of the national security state here at home.

We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States.

History is a matter of interpretation, but you have to start with certain facts.

People [in US] are starting to rethink this idea of empire, this idea of the United States being this superpower, the hegemon, is not working, and we can't afford it anymore.

People think in narrow, constrained, constipated ways about the world. They can't imagine that the world could be different. Not like the dreamers who actually see a different world, a better world.

We have seen enough of war to know that it doesn't work to resolve conflicts. It only exacerbates them. It is time we find other solutions and dedicate ourselves to life-not death.