Tag: Noam Chomsky
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When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.
Noam Chomsky
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The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.
Noam Chomsky
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Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don’t just succumb.
Noam Chomsky
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I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.
Noam Chomsky
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In every country except – industrial country except the United States, the government uses its massive purchasing power to negotiate drug prices. That’s one of the reasons prices are so much higher in the United States than in other countries.
Noam Chomsky
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
Noam Chomsky
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The public is strongly in favor of the Kyoto Protocols, so strongly in favor that a majority of Bush voters thought that he was in favor of it. They are simply unaware.
Noam Chomsky
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Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied population.
Noam Chomsky
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In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev’s willingness to accept Kennedy’s hegemonic demands.
Noam Chomsky
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Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated – Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.
Noam Chomsky