A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is all right-only the people need to….

It is much simpler and easier to collect and caress the trophies of our democratic inheritance than it is to fashion up-to-date tools with which to w….

Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial execu….

I'm actually all in favor of freeing the entrepreneurial spirit - but it turns out, interestingly, that you actually need very strict regulations to ….

I'd been a film maniac since I was very young; by the time I was eight or nine years old, I was hooked on movies..

You shall hear a good account of me or of my death..

I sort of plunged into filmmaking. I decided I'd jump off the deep end, so I started thinking about what kind of a movie I should try to make..

When the U.S. government is serious about doing something that's complicated and difficult, it can do it..

This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail..

The real challenge is figuring out how the United States can regain control of its future from its new oligarchy and restore its position as a prospe….

It is no exaggeration to say that since the 1980s, much of the global financial sector has become criminalised, creating an industry culture that tol….

Any attempt to disturb the deadly routine of instruction is looked upon as sabotage. And the notion that the aims and functions of education should b….

If allowed to continue, this process will turn the United States into a declining, unfair society with an impoverished, angry, uneducated population ….

But that's not how most of the people mentioned in this book became wealthy. Most of them became wealthy by being well connected and crooked. And the….

I used to be a businessman and I enjoyed what I did and I thought that it was socially useful. I don't have anything against business or private ente….

WikiLeaks combines several of my prior interests in technology, policy questions, and journalism..

A very high fraction of America's economic problems come not from our difficulties with education or globalization or competition with the Chinese or….

I thought I should try something relatively inexpensive, relatively contained, relatively small. I started working on a feature, a film I'd still lik….

Thus far, both political parties have been remarkably clever and effective in concealing this new reality. In fact, the two parties have formed an in….

Everyone knows, or has strongly suspected, that capital theory is difficult..

When the financial crisis arrived, it seemed to me that this was something I had to make a movie about..