The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.

When we are born, when we enter this world, it is as if we signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf?

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.