Quotes from Noam Chomsky

Obama, of course, outspent McCain.

I don't usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this 'hopey changey stuff,' she was right: there was nothing there.

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.

In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was extended to a mandatory embargo in 1977. And that was followed by economic sanctions and other measures - sometimes officials, countries, cities, towns - some organized by popular movements.

The public is strongly in favor of the Kyoto Protocols, so strongly in favor that a majority of Bush voters thought that he was in favor of it. They are simply unaware.

I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.

The 'peace movement' exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That's all to the good.

The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.

Spaniards were condemned for appeasing terrorism by voting for withdrawing troops from Iraq in the absence of U.N. authorization - that is, for taking a stand rather like that of 70 percent of Americans, who called for the U.N. to take the leading role in Iraq.

There's a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn't count the votes right, and so on. That's all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don't take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term 'election.'

In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students.

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's minuscule, few percent.

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb.

Armed attack has a definition in international law. It means sudden, overwhelming, instantaneous ongoing attack.

After the ignominious collapse of the Copenhagen global climate change summit in 2009, Bolivia organised a People's Summit with 35,000 participants from 140 countries - not just representatives of governments, but also civil society and activists.

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn't work like that... There's a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn't picked me up.

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the 'Wall Street Journal.'