Noam Chomsky Quotes

When I am asked whether the division between the left and the right still has any meaning, the first thought that comes to my mind is that the person who asks the question is not on the left.

You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism.

The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.

We are against political parties and we have none.

The people we elect aren't bipartisan. The American public is bipartisan.

There's no such thing as a partisan base.

That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

What the left says sounds very good but, in practice, it works out very badly.

Let's get the elephant out of the room. I'm a conservative Democrat.

I don’t think America really has a left wing. The American left wing would fit very comfortably in the center or center right of most European political spectrums.

The dilemma of modern progressive politics is that you are always fighting on two fronts: The conservatives on the right, and the conservatives on the left.

There isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between politicians of either major party.

… the two factions (of the Republican Party) are at daggers drawn over government’s role, which one side sees as indispensable, the other as insidious..

I don't know what a conservative is, you know, but I do know what good people are. And that's where I sit with Donald Trump.

The Right everywhere in the world gains more by forming a security agenda while the Left gains from a social agenda.

You will never satisfy the far extremes on the Left and the Right.

There are things that I can agree with from both sides: perhaps the civil libertarian issues of the Left and also the economic freedom issues of the Right while still rejecting the big-government tendencies of both sides of the political spectrum.

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.

I've been called communist, socialist, anti-American.

We must resist the temptation of once again turning America into the traditional bogeyman of the left.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

What is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era.

I was ranked the second most conservative member in the House.

Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.