Noam Chomsky

“My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha'am's essays.”

“NATO's essentially run by the United States.”

“For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.”

“You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no...”

“The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it's hardly a traditional political party anymore.”

“Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions.”

“There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.”

“Meteorologists are pretty faces reading scripts telling you whether it's going to rain tomorrow.”

“In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'”

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

“When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University - that I don't like.”

“The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy's finest hour.”

“What's important in Libya is, first of all, it has a good deal of oil. A lot of the country is unexplored; there may be a lot more. And it's very high-quality oil, so very valuable.”

“Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.”

“Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretatio...”

“Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.”

“I don't want followers.”

“In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.”

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

“Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.”