"The primary task of the media is to make sure that the people don't find out what's really going on."

"That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

"The idea that you can have a democracy when the means of communication are controlled by private tyrannies is absurd."

"The role of the intellectual is to speak the truth, and to expose lies, and to be a witness to history."