Years Quotes by Noam Chomsky

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

— Noam Chomsky

Democracy has both expanded and declined over the years.

— Noam Chomsky

I didn't pay my taxes for years.

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The US has been the leading terrorist state in the world for many years.

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I'm sorry to say it has some historical analogs. It's kind of reminiscent of what happened in Germany in the late Weimar…

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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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When I was ten years old I wanted to be a taxidermist for some reason, don't ask me why.

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If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

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

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The Irish sea is a chasm, and it just depends who's been holding the whip for 800 years and who's been under…

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Popular support for alternative energy has been very high for years. But it harms corporate profits.

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China has been there for 3,000 years, has contempt for the barbarians, is overcoming a century of domination, and simply moves on…

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When I wrote about the Spanish Civil War many years later, I used documents that I picked up when I was a…

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Similar problems are arising in Egypt too. The question is whether the military will release its grip which has been extremely strong…

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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now…

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U.S. analysts estimate that Russian military expenditures have tripled during the Bush-Putin years, in large measure a predicted reaction to the Bush…

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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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We have to be irrational and vindictive, because that's going to frighten people. And we have to maintain this for years. And…

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The number of illegal firings tripled during the [Ronald] Reagan years. It was at that time that you started getting these companies…

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Like most terms of political discourse, socialism has more or less, lost its meaning. Socialism used to mean something. If you go…

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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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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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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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Let's take Southeast Asia. The last 20, 30 years has been what's called the "Asian Miracle" - fast economic growth, industrial society.…

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That's our nuclear weapons strategy [going to frighten people], as of the early post-Cold War years. And I think this is a…

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Take the US. Women were not even able to vote until 90 ago, at about the same time they gained the right…

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Over the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a…

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As far as Bernie Sanders is concerned, he is a decent, honest person, and I supported him. What he means by socialism…

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I remember talking to, 40 years ago, one of the leading people in the government who was involved in arms control, pressing…

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To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton…

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In America, we happen to be living in a third world country from the point of view of economic and social development.…

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The community itself didn't support the union. Now that's kind of interesting about [Barack] Obama, because Obama was supposedly a community organizer…

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I've never seen a study, but my sense is that these are people who feel really aggrieved. These people think, "I've done…

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There have, for years, been comparative studies of religious fanaticism and factors that correlate with it. By and large, it tends to…

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Put yourself in the position of a person, sort of an ordinary American, "I'm a hard-working, god-fearing Christian. I take care of…

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Anatomically modern humans are found up to 200,000 years ago; behaviourally modern humans appear very recently in evolutionary time, as far as…

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In the case of [Antonio] Gramsci, the Fascist government agreed that he was a "model intellectual" in [Edward] Said's sense, and for…

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Today, aid to Colombia is given under the pretext of a drug war. That's pretty hard to take seriously. Ten years ago,…

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For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration…

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If you want information about sports, I can tell you things from the 1940's, and the couple years that my grandson was…

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