Noam Chomsky

“The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.”

“I don't think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.”

“Israel is a pretty crazy state.”

“As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of...”

“Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.”

“I don't like the intellectual label.”

“I don't see anything that's come out on WikiLeaks that was a legitimate secret.”

“It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we've seen with th...”

“If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.”

“My proposal happens to be very mainstream.”

“When I look at public opinion, I'm not far out of the mainstream. I'm in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I've ever said.”

“The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it's a major problem, that's just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.”

“Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.”

“Remember, weapons of mass destruction don't mean missiles.”

“Obama, of course, outspent McCain.”

“The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.”

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

“Terrorists regard themselves as a vanguard. They're trying to mobilize others to their cause. I mean, every specialist on terrorism knows that.”

“Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.”

“As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties.”