I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.
There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics.
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason.
Poetry can't give us the laws and institutions and representatives, the antidotes we need: only public activism by massive numbers of citizens can do that.
Globalisation must have, as a critical component, international dispensation in the locality of U.N. institutions. It cannot be, and must not be, business as usual in the establishment and location of international institutions, especially of the United Nations.
I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
Poetry can't give us the laws and institutions and representatives, the antidotes we need: only public activism by massive numbers of citizens can do that.
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.
I think we've now gotten to this point where we're growing more and more distrustful of our institutions, be they government or corporations or otherwise.
Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.