Noam Chomsky

I am not too happy with terms like ‘the left’, to be honest. And I don’t use it much….if by ‘the left’ you mean people who are committed to peace and justice and freedom and so on, there can’t be elements of the left opposed to workers’ movement, at least under that definition.

To the extent that Trump’s programs are coherent, they fall into the same general category of those of Paul Ryan, who has granted us the kindness of spelling them out: increase spending on the military…and cut back taxes, mainly on the rich, with no new revenue sources.

Unfortunately, you can’t vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place

The big transnationals want to reduce freedom by undermining the democratic functioning of the states in which they’re based, while at the same time ensuring the government will be powerful enough to protect and support them.

The congressional Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that the [“The US Donor Relief Act of 2017”] will add $1 trillion to deficits over the next decade. Virtually every economist generally agrees. But not 80 percent of Republican voters…

Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.

One should seek out an audience that matters — and furthermore (another important qualification), it should not be seen as an audience, but as a community of common concern in which one hopes to participate constructively. We should not be speaking to, but with.

Another way to solve the traffic problems of this country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars be allowed to use the highways.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

[on Trump] This guy’s shame has no limits.

America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.

Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.

While greatly honored internationally, Mandela remained on the US terrorist list until 2008, when at last a congressional resolution allowed him to enter the ‘land of the free’ without special dispensation.

I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

Immigrants would be very happy to stay in their own countries instead of coming here to unpleasant and harsh situations. They can’t, because we have ruined their countries. So, the first step…should be to help reconstruct and rebuild what we have destroyed.

No sooner does a government attempt to go beyond its political sphere… than it exercises… insupportable tyranny.

It is clear to us that we have to defend our interests, and to do so consistently, not boorishly or rudely, in both the sphere of the economy and of defense.

I feel a lot of people listen to what I have to say.

You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.

All of it was invented by people who oppose President Trump to undermine his legitimacy.- Vladimir Putin

I’ve never tried to impose pressure on the authority of the government through my business achievements. I cannot tell you what the others were doing.