The manufacturing industry is starting to press for some kind of national healthcare. Now it's beginning to put it on the agenda.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
NAFTA and GATT are quite similar. They both have highly protectionist elements. They're kind of a mixture of liberalization and protection designed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What is "credibility"? It's a very familiar notion. It's basically the notion that is central to the Mafia. So suppose say the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States is unique among the rich countries, developed countries, in not having some kind of a national health-care system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If the most important revolutionary part of the George W. Bush Doctrine is that states that harbor terrorists are terrorist states, what… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
So if you look at the writings of intellectuals, there are two kinds. One said, l"Look, if we fought harder we could… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the pre-capitalist world, everyone had a place. It might not have been a very nice place, even maybe a horrible place,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There isn't much point arguing about the word "libertarian." It would make about as much sense to argue with an unreconstructed Stalinist… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think the activism of the 1960s had a very definite civilizing effect on the whole society in all kinds of ways.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Of course, everybody says they're for peace. Hitler was for peace. Everybody is for peace. The question is: What kind of peace? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Pashtuns in particular are kind of trapped. They've never accepted the Durand Line nor has any Afghan government historically accepted it. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The community itself didn't support the union. Now that's kind of interesting about [Barack] Obama, because Obama was supposedly a community organizer… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's hard to achieve that, especially in a free society, but it's been done, and that's the kind of thing that activists… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[Internet] is kind of like a hammer. The technology itself doesn't determine how its used. It depends on the social, cultural and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Russians were doing a lot of rotten things, you can point to them. But the idea that if you consider what… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't claim to know a lot about Mexico, but I did talk to quite a number of left Mexican intelectuals, and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
On abortion: We are talking about ambiguous issues of a complicated kind where you have to balance conflicting interests and concerns. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In England, enclosure programs kind of destroyed the commons. In the United States, it happened later. But, ah, now it's happening in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's kind of a hidden point which isn't being brought out, and that is that it is inconceivable that the U.S. would… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think half the population supports this ban on these dangerous immigrants who are going to come in and do something, who… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
France has not been able to come to terms with the fact that it's not a major power anymore. I mean even… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I just went along with political activists and interested in other intellectual interests which I pursued kind of at random. I never… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is kind of a fundamental conformity, which is a virtual requirement to enter into the media. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think the most important work that is going on has to do with the search for very general and abstract features… — 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 Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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