Naomi Klein

“Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to liberate the power of capital so that they can have as much economic growth as quickly as possible, and then all good things will flow from that.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“If David Duke got the percentage of the vote that Le Pen got, we would be terrified, as well we should be.”

“I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is the issue that beats all other issues,' or, 'Your issue doesn't matter because nothing matters if the earth is fried.'”

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

“2007, according to a Harris poll, 71 percent of Americans believed that climate change was real, that it was human caused.”

“My sister lives in Oklahoma. And, you know, it is so shocking that James Inhofe, the foremost climate-denying senator, is from the state that is so deeply climate-affected.”

“Fossil fuels are - they're inherently centralized. And you need a lot of infrastructure to get them out, and you need a lot of infrastructure to transport it, as Obama was explaining in front of all that pipe, right? Whereas renewable energy is everywhere.”

“I am not saying Russia is not important, but Trump's base is very well defended against that: 'the liberal media is out to get him', 'it's fake news', and all the rest.”

“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!”

“We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.”

“For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.”

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

“That's the trick of free market economic theory: it doesn't just ask you to only be selfish and not care about others. It tells you that by being selfish, you are helping others. And, in fact, by trying to directly help others, you will hurt them.”

“That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.”

“I don't think there could've been a pitch as crass as Trump's 'I can fix America because I'm rich' without that groundwork laid by Davos and the Clinton Global Initiative.”

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

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