The United States is absolutely the most dangerous country in the world. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Chinese military spending is carefully monitored by the United States. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States is off the international spectrum in religious extremism. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States is going to continue to punish Iran because of its defiance. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Real wages for male workers in the United States are about what they were in the '60s. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When Nazi emissaries came to the United States, they were welcomed at Harvard. — 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
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
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, the political system is a very marginal affair. There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of… — 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
The major organizing centers, like the labor movement, have been severely weakened in the United States by policy. — 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
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
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
It's a lesser-known story, but the Japanese government (after the Russian-Nazi pact, which split Poland) did allow Polish Jews to come to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We're supposed to believe that oil had nothing to do with it, that if Iraq were exporting pickles or jelly and the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In our case [the United States] it happens to be basically corporate structure. Much of the population is going to be harmed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Even in a largely depoliticized society such as the United States, with no political parties or opposition press beyond the narrow spectrum… — 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
If you listen to the talk shows, which are rabid right-wing, and very interesting, an important fact about the United States, they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is not that I am not a fan of American exceptionalism. That is like saying I am not a fan of… — 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
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
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
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
The United States invaded Iraq to gain control of one of the major sources of the world's energy. — 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 unique among the rich countries, developed countries, in not having some kind of a national health-care system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you do a Google search, you will probably read a lot of stuff about how I am someone who wants to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States happens to be the only state in the world that has been condemned by the World Court for international… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In fact, a rather striking aspect of business propaganda in the United States is the demonization of government, starting after the Second… — 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