Noam Chomsky

The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion.

Much research, including a widely quoted Rand Corporation study of 1994, has shown that prevention and treatment are considerably more cost-effective than the coercive [drug war] measures that receive the bulk of funding. Such nonpunitive measures are also of course far more humane.

These are just samples of the real lives of Trump supporters, who are led to believe that Trump will do something to remedy their plight, though the merest look at his fiscal and other proposals demonstrates the opposite — posing a task for activists who hope to fend off the worst and to advance desperately needed changes..

Already under Obama, the nuclear modernization programs had reached the level where they were posing a literal first-strike threat to Russia. Trump is escalating it, even more modernization of extremely dangerous forces, also significantly lowering the threshold for nuclear war.

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

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

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

Labour has the responsibility to give a lead where the government will not. We need to bring people together, hold the government to account, oppose austerity and set out a path to exit that will protect jobs and incomes.

The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.

We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.

The business world was pretty upset by the advances in public welfare in the ’60s, in particular by Richard Nixon – it’s not too well understood, but he was the last New Deal president, and they regarded that as class treachery.

Don’t be obsessed with tactics but with purpose. Tactics have a half life.

No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama’s plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it’s their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.

We have a tax-raising power in Scotland but not in English regions. I want genuine regional taxation powers [in England].

…the Pentagon has been the primary Keynesian mechanism whereby the government intervenes to maintain what is ludicrously called the health of the economy by inducing production, that means production of waste and destruction

How it is we have so much information, but know so little?

The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.

[on Bill and Hillary Clinton] Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it’s troubling.