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" My worry about this exclusive focus on Trump - the personality and how all of this is so unprecedented - is that then the solution seems to be, 'Well, we'll just get rid of Trump.' "

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" I was the rebel in our family and a child of the eighties. That meant going to the mall. "

" When I went to Australia, I had this feeling, like, 'Wow, this is really a different country.' I think that feeling of genuine foreignness, that this is a very different culture, which is increasingly rare in our globalised world. "

" You've got the Trump water and Trump Steaks and Trump's very so-called dodgy university. And so many of the towers, the Trump towers around the world, the Trump resorts around the world, those are not owned by the Trump Organization. "

" Even though I believe in mass social movements, I'm uncomfortable in crowds. "

" It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again. "

" A state of shock is what results when a gap opens up between events and our initial ability to explain them. When we find ourselves in that position, without a story, without our moorings, a great many people become vulnerable to authority figures telling us to fear one another and relinquish our rights for the greater good. "

" One of the ideas that I wanted to highlight, which is actually a very bipartisan idea - it's not just about conservatives - is this worship of wealth, the CEO saviour. "

" I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful. "

" That is the core of Trump. He is undoubtedly an idiot, but do not underestimate how good he is at that. "

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" Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people. "

" There have been presidents with business interests before. But there has never been a fully commercialized global brand as a sitting U.S. president. That is unprecedented. "

" The Trump Organization is paid millions of dollars by these developers for the privilege of putting the Trump name on those towers. "

" I am about safety for the people and the planet. "

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" My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there. "

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" I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump. "

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" We live in an interconnected world, in an interconnected time, and we need holistic solutions. We have a crisis of inequality, and we need climate solutions that solve that crisis. "

" When I feel my blood sugar getting off, I drink a glass of kale juice. It's so disgusting you don't want to eat anything! "

" The customer is always right: 'It's my money. You have to listen to me'. "

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" Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed. "

" As soon as it was clear, in Copenhagen in 2009, that the Senate was blocking Obama from introducing meaningful climate legislation, the push was for him to use executive authority, use the EPA, use the tool of federal leases, and there was just a refusal to do it. "

" It's really, really hard to get in rooms with people you don't usually work with and try to find common ground. "

" Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise. "

" My grandfather was actually a union organizer at Walt Disney. He was an animator. He used to draw Donald Duck for Walt Disney. "

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" The Trump family's business model is part of a broader shift in corporate structure that has taken place within many brand-based multinationals, one with transformative impacts on culture and the job market, trends that I wrote about in my first book, 'No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies'. "