Real wages for male workers in the United States are about what they were in the '60s. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you destroyed half the pharmaceutical production in the United States, we'd think it's a pretty serious problem. In fact, we'd probably… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the United States everyone is an illegal immigrant - everyone except the people in Indian Reservations. This is an immigrant society. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't think that the United States cares. They just assume that North Korea will soon have nuclear weapons. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
They [the union] were members of the Communist Party - they didn't care one way or another about Russia, they just cared… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States invaded Iraq to gain control of one of the major sources of the world's energy. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Nothing can justify crimes such as those of September 11, but we can think of the United States as an innocent victim… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States in many ways resembles a Third World country - far more elevated, but it has many of those structural… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Unlike Europe, China can't be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they've… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That's because those… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Some of the younger people afford hope for the future. I am not opposed to reform initiatives. For example, if you can… — 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
Arab public opinion does not regard Iran as a hostile entity. In fact it's so supportive of Iran that a majority would… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[According to the rigid dogma] we have to believe the United States would have so-called liberated Iraq even if its main products… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's a strong nativist tradition - saying, "we have to protect ourselves" - that comes from the founding of the country. If… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's just no question that the United States was trying desperately to prevent the independence of South Vietnam and to prevent a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's been a real success - one of the great business successes in the United States - to break down organization, to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If [climate change ] became a serious proposal in the United States, there would be a huge propaganda onslaught by the business… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To go back to a moment of Western civilization remote enough in time so that we should be able to look at… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
That was the reason why very few people fleeing the rise of fascism in Europe, especially in Germany, could get to the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises in terms of their actual human costs, and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If the United States is accommodating, the North Koreans become accommodating. If the United States is hostile, they become hostile. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Where are the drug cartels getting their weapons? They are being provided by the United States. Cut off that flow of arms. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It's not like Egypt, where you're going to get murdered by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the United States, and to a certain extent in Canada, there's very little interest in what happens outside their borders. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The doctrine that everything is fine as long as the population is quiet, that applies in the Middle East, applies in Central… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States is a very insular society. Most people know very little about the outside world and don't care that much.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The criminalization of Black life was something specific to the United States in the post-Reconstruction period and there's something like it happening… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
China is a great manufacturing center, but it's actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It… — 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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