“There's an obvious irony in hosting a conference about the future of media, democracy, dissent, and political power while responding so cautiously to the banning of one of the most influential political commentators from even entering the country"
"Our hope is that [the deal gets blocked]. Of course, it doesn't look good, but we're going to get in every fight that we need to get into on behalf of people and to fight corporate greed and corporate monopolies"