America Quotes by Noam Chomsky

South America goes its own way dramatically in international affairs.

— Noam Chomsky

Politicians don't want democracy here in America, why would they want it in the Middle East?

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Nobody can successfully defy the master of the hemisphere [America], in fact of the world, hence the savagery.

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What is important to us is to reverse the shameful course being pursued by America. It won't be easy, but it must…

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America is a very fundamentalist society. It's like Iran in the degree of fanatic religious commitment.

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In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is…

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Latin America is all moving to the left, from Venezuela to Argentina with rare exceptions, but there's a good left and a…

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In fact, there is a very close correlation between human rights violations and US aid, particularly in Latin America.

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“In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It…

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Latin America wants to decriminalize at least marijuana (maybe more or course;) the US wants to maintain it. An interesting story. There…

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The Andes region is not stable. So we can expect to see more US intervention. It could be under any kind of…

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Evaluating countries is senseless and I would never put things in those terms, but that some of America's advances, particularly in the…

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People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That's because those…

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The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive…

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Plainly elites in America don't want democracy. And why should they? Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition.

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It makes sense for Japan to pursue a more independent role in the world, following Latin America and others in freeing itself…

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There are leaks from the Embassy in Honduras. There was a coup in 2009. Obama broke with most of Latin America and…

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One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early…

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We don't have polls from the business world, but it's pretty clear that the energy corporations in America would be quite happy…

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Part of the uprising of Latin America, particularly in the last 10 to 15 years, has been a reaction to [neoliberal regime],…

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I think religion has often played a very positive role. Take western civilization, the Catholic Church has played an honorable role in…

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When [Bill] Clinton came along, it sort of moderated a little bit, but Clinton had a different device for breaking unions called…

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America has always been the richest and most secure, and sometimes the most dangerous country in the world. In the early years,…

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Europe is being subjected to the kinds of programs that devastated Latin America for many years. Latin America has thrown them out…

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“It's amazing in Europe: Europe has become extraordinarily colonized culturally by the United States, to an extent that is almost unbelievable―Europeans aren't…

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“Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats are pretty much what used to be…

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“Or I remember in 1987, when there was a big hoopla about the bicentennial of the Constitution, the Boston Globe published one…

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Pick the topic you like: the Middle East, international terrorism, Central America, whatever it is - the picture of the world that's…

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“For example, take George McGovern [1972 Presidential candidate who campaigned on an anti-war platform]. George McGovern did not support the invasion of…

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“Take Canada again: why does Canada have the health-care program it does? Up until the mid-1960s, Canada and the United States had…

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The 'corporatization of America' during the past century [has been] an attack on democracy.

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Nicaragua was destabilizing Central America, meaning moving in a direction the US didn't like. So Nicaragua was crushed.

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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

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The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies.

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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United…

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The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as 'failed states.'

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Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

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The British had an even stronger [then America] business interest in Nazi Germany. And Benito Mussolini was greatly admired.

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Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence.

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South America has virtually broken away in the last decade. That's an event of historic significance. South America just doesn't follow US…

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