Trump Quotes by Noam Chomsky

Obama, of course, outspent McCain.

— Noam Chomsky

I've already supported Bernie Sanders in the primaries.

— Noam Chomsky

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

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If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.

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I don't pay a lot of attention to polls.

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The Republican Party among the public is a minority party.

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Obama's latest line is that he didn't establish a "red line" but the world did through its conventions on chemical warfare.

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No sane human being devotes 100% of his or her life to political activism.

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It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.

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I have never really thought that the Left was much in 'array' as far as political purposes were concerned.

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Any little issue - Miss Universe, or whatever it may be - [Donald Trump] is completely unpredictable, he'll go off into outer…

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As far as DSA is concerned, I'm perfectly happy to be associated with it while disagreeing with a large part of the…

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It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

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Jean Kirkpatrick [is] the chief sadist-in-residence of the Reagan Administration.

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“appeal to non-business interests) and let them be effective. Although there is marked and frequently observed dissatisfaction with the Republicans and Democrats,…

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There are in fact many ways to combat the Trump project of creating a tiny America, isolated from the world, cowering in…

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If you read people like say Bruce Blair one of the leading, most sober, knowledgeable specialists, he says, look, [Donald Trump] statements…

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I think that sooner or later the white working-class constituency will recognize, and in fact, much of the rural population will come…

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The time to be political is not when you have parties and carnivals, it's kind of a show, the election. It affects…

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Going back to why people don't vote, I presume the main reason is because they understand without reading political science texts that…

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While Trump keeps the spotlight on himself, the "respectable" Republican establishment chips away at government programs that benefit the general population.

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When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his…

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[Donald] Trump has been very inconsistent on many things; on Twitter he's been all over the place, but some of it is…

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Many of the people who voted for Trump were people who voted for Obama eight years ago. You remember, of course, his…

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I mean, what's the elections? You know, two guys, same background, wealth, political influence, went to the same elite university, joined the…

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Over the years, there's been case after case when there were very narrow decisions that had to be made about whether to…

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There are real possibilities of reaching many of the Trump voters: many of them in fact voted for Obama, believing his rhetoric…

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The Republican Party has pretty much abandoned any pretense of being a traditional political party. It's in lockstep obedience to the very…

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We must present a national persona of being irrational and vindictive, because that's going to terrify people. And then, they'll back off.…

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Every single one cabinet appointment: education, environment, labor - every single one is selected to undermine any aspect of government that's of…

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Activism spawned by Sanders campaign is beginning to make inroads into electoral politics. Under Barack Obama, the Democratic Party pretty much collapsed…

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That's unfortunately common - to blame immigrants, to blame the African-Americans who are being helped by federal programs, to blame anyone available,…

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What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it.

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To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

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I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

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Today's Democrats are pretty much what used to be called moderate Republicans a generation ago.

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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it's hardly a traditional political party anymore.

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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.

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When a politician uses the word 'folks,' we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

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I think there are real possibilities of reaching out to many of the Trump voters, those who voted for Obama believing his…

— Noam Chomsky