Quotes from Noam Chomsky

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard Nixon, who would be something of a dangerous radical in today's political scene.

Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion and imagery.

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as 'failed states.'

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the U.S. economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing.

In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military technology to the Middle East and Israel would recognize that country. President Clinton intervened and blocked it.

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

Travel from what is called Pakistan to Afghanistan has been made increasingly difficult and people are often labelled terrorists, even those who might be just visiting families.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's not their concern.

A siege is an act of war.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated - Japan's attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.

You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.

If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.

Dissident intellectuals aren't all beautiful.

On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.

It could be - and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don't like it - that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.

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

John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he's regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship, the leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.