Noam Chomsky Quotes

American politicians are responsive almost solely to the interests and desires of their rich constituents and interest groups that primarily represent big business.

I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.

America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.

There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

The difference between Democrats and Republicans is like the difference between Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dummer.

We have this civil war at home between our own version of Shiites and Sunnis called Republicans and Democrats…

In short, Republicans under Trump have finally destroyed the New Deal, turning the government over to a small cadre of wealthy businessmen, unhampered, to run the country as they see fit.

I don't believe we're the party of big business.

The Tea Party is almost solely grassroots-based; business interests have almost no grassroots organization. The Republican Party has for too long been run on behalf of business interests who favor candidates the grassroots hate; the minute that those candidates begin to flag, only loyal Tea Partiers stand behind them.

To me, regardless of who's in office, the government is strangled by business. And the government's priorities are dictated by business. I mean, why does America, even after healthcare reform, still not have free universal healthcare? I'm sure it has something to do with the insurance lobby.

I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.

There is no real third party in America. There's this one party that has two sides to it - the Democratic and Republican side. It's one party that has two heads.

The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.

Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.

I support Democrats and Republicans. And I'm telling you that the business community in this company is frightened to death of the weird political philosophy of the President of the United States. And until he's gone, everybody's going to be sitting on their thumbs.

Middle-class democracy has proved the best camouflage of the political dominance of big capital.

Politics is not like a teeter totter. Just because one party goes down, it does not mean that they other party goes up.

There seems to be something sacrosanct about big business.

We are coming close to having today a Congress of whackos and millionaires.

Because, Bill, I think we’ve given the South away to the Republican party for as long as anyone can foresee.

This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests that you can't tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans

The Republican Party is the open and avowed handmaiden of the trusts.

One party is under the ironclad control of Wall Street and the other one caters to Wall Street.

The bosses of the Democratic party and the bosses of the Republican party alike have a closer grip than ever before on the party machines in the States and in the Nation. This crooked control of both the old parties by the beneficiaries of political and business privilege renders it hopeless to expect any far-reaching and fundamental service from either.