1,450 Quotes by Noam Chomsky

When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn't producing any more.

In the case of the environment, there's no one to bail it out.

The basic principle, rarely violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and privilege does not exist.

Obama's primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.

Under Clinton, the defiance of world order has become so extreme as to be of concern even to hawkish policy analysts.

In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back.

Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.

It is not a war. It is murder.

The United States in many ways resembles a Third World country - far more elevated, but it has many of those structural characteristics: the extreme inequality of wealth, the deterioration of infrastructure because it only serves poor people, predatory operations, huge corruption, and so on.