There's a very striking fact about the elections which you can't miss if you looked at the red-and-blue electoral map the next… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There was great anxiety about Russian intervention in the recent German elections, perhaps contributing to the frightening surge of support for the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In November 2008, the day of the presidential election, Israeli military forces invaded Gaza and killed half a dozen Hamas militants. Well,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the US, first of all, the electoral system has been almost totally shredded. For a long time it's been pretty much… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You ought to teach kids that elections take place but that's not politics. If you want to know how legislation is made… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The time to be political is not when you have parties and carnivals, it's kind of a show, the election. It affects… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Regulate the banks, get money out of elections; raise the minimum wage, environmental issues. They're all very important and the Occupy movement… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Look, the United States doesn't have political parties. In other countries, take say Europe, you can be an active member of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You never know how [Donald Trump] is going to react. When he learned for example that he'd lost the election by about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States is a special case, and for me, very interesting. It's studied carefully and we know a lot about it.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I mean, what's the elections? You know, two guys, same background, wealth, political influence, went to the same elite university, joined the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the primary debates for the 2016 election, every single Republican candidate was a climate change denier, with one exception, John Kasich… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The elections are run by the same guys who sell toothpaste. They show you an image of a sports hero, or a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There was a free election in Palestine, but it came out the wrong way. So instantly, the United States and Israel with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Sanders campaign, however, broke dramatically with over a century of U.S. political history. Extensive political science research, notably the work of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Media are corporations so... It's the concentrations of private power which have an enormous, not total control, but enormous influence over… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There had been a free and open election in Haiti in the early 1990s and president Jean-Bertrand Aristide won, a populist priest.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Sanders campaign showed that a candidate with mildly progressive programs could win the nomination, maybe the election, even without the backing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
The 50,000 Korean mercenaries we had in Vietnam were professional killers and just massacred people outright. And the American army did plenty of that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
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