To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.

But what we have is not democracy; it is demonocracy! We are ruled by demons.

Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.

There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.

To me, politics is culture. I became a journalist, and later a filmmaker, to get to know my new country and my volatile place in it as a gay, undocumented Filipino-American.