Britain's Is Traditionally A Rigid Class Society.

We Can't Have Extraordinary Dynamism, Innovation, And Change In The Economy And Expect To Have Predictability And Stability In Our Personal Lives. It's Not As If There Are These Big, Giant Institutions Existing Between Us And The Economy. In Fact, These Institutions Have Become Tissue-thin. There Is No Mediation Anymore. We Are The Economy; The Economy Is Us.

No Economy Can Continue To Function When The Vast Middle Class And Everybody Else Don't Have Enough Purchasing Power To Buy What The Economy Is Capable Of Producing Without Going Deeper And Deeper Into Debt.

I Mean, You Hear The Word 'globalization' Over And Over And Over Again. Globalization, Globalization, Globalization. Rarely Has A Word Gone So Directly From Obscurity To Meaninglessness Without Any Intervening Period Of Coherence.

One Thing I've Learned From 35 Years In The Classroom Is That People Learn Best When They Are Laughing, When They Are Emotionally Hit, That It's Both The Brain And The Heart.

We Can't Know In Advance What History Is Going To Say, But I Would Be Utterly Amazed And Surprised If This Entire Adventure, This Entire Iraqi Invasion From The Beginning Of Its Inception, Were Not Judged To Be An Utter Failure And A Terrible, Terrible Thing For The World.