There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Stephen Colbert's recent comment is apropos: When the Republican legislature of North Carolina responded to a scientific study predicting a threatening rise… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Republican Primaries were quite interesting. The establishment had its candidate, [Mitt] Romney, a kind of a Wall Street lawyer and investor,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The US is off the spectrum in religious commitment. It's been increasing since 1980 but it's a major part of the voting… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Today's Democrats are pretty much what used to be called moderate Republicans a generation ago. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's a split in the US about how this [split] will be resolved. The main point to look at is the split… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
While Trump keeps the spotlight on himself, the "respectable" Republican establishment chips away at government programs that benefit the general population. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Republican establishment, the mainstream corporate financial wealth, is getting to a point where it can't control the base it's mobilized. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's a radical insurgency, which is a large part of the Republican base, which is willing to do anything, destroy the country,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Republicans have picked that as the one thing that they want to hang on to to try to gain some political… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump has been very inconsistent on many things; on Twitter he's been all over the place, but some of it is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The most powerful country in world history, which is sure to set its stamp on what follows, placed the entire government (executive,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats are pretty much what used to be… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Republican and Democratic Parties are only factions of the Government Party. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are in fact many ways to combat the Trump project of creating a tiny America, isolated from the world, cowering in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Every time a candidate came up from the base, that is with popular support, the Republican establishment went into high gear to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Activism spawned by Sanders campaign is beginning to make inroads into electoral politics. Under Barack Obama, the Democratic Party pretty much collapsed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[ Republican Party] is correctly described as a "radical insurgency" by one of the leading conservative commentators, Norman Ornstein. — 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 most important issues to address are the truly existential threats we face: climate change and nuclear war. On the former, the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it's hardly a traditional political party anymore. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Republicans went so far to the right that they just can't get votes. They've become a dedicated party of the very… — 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