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The Tea Party movement itself is maybe 15, 20 percent of the electorate. It's relatively affluent, white, nativist. You know, it has rather traditional nativist streaks to it. But what is much more important, I think, is the – is its outrage.
Noam Chomsky
Meteorologists are pretty faces reading scripts telling you whether it's going to rain tomorrow.
Noam Chomsky
Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.
Noam Chomsky
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
Noam Chomsky
Latin America has much richer resources. You'd expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.
Noam Chomsky
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 other states – no more, no less.
Noam Chomsky
When a politician uses the word 'folks,' we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.
Noam Chomsky
There are two problems for our species' survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
Noam Chomsky
A siege is an act of war.
Noam Chomsky
As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties.
Noam Chomsky