Noam Chomsky Quotes

The US has been the leading terrorist state in the world for many years.

There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international terrorism.

So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency.

The world is shifting from a hegemonic era, where the United States dominated alone, to a multipolar system.

To the men in Washington, the world is just a giant Monopoly board.

American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.

One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition with you, you will have a coalition against you. I don't want to see China and Russia on the side of Iran more strongly than they are.

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.

The standards of the international community manifest firmness. Iran has no need for long-range missiles or to collaborate with terrorist organizations all over the world.

American power in the Middle East is collapsing. It doesn't need much more than a shove, and it will - and that's not going to be a good thing.

the avowed pretension of the United States, to put themselves at the head of the confederacy of all the Americas, and to sway that confederacy against Europe (Great Britain included), is not a pretension identified with our interests, or one that we can countenance or tolerate. It is, however, a pretension which there is no use in contesting in the abstract; but we must not say anything that seems to admit this principle.

The US is a difficult partner, but an indispensable one. Everyone who have had to do with US politicians and diplomats knows they aren't easy to deal with. That is because of their immense sense of power. But an alliance with the US is absolutely necessary because of our relations with, on the one hand, Germany and France, and, on the other, Russia.

Great powers engage.

Historians in the future will surely wonder what went so wrong when the United States, for the first time ever, focused its foreign policy on the Islamic world.

Just as the United States doesn't like others to take charge, other countries also don't like the United States to play a dominant role in the United Nations.

The United States, of course, is determined to diversify Europe to such an extent that it becomes a meaningless entity.

It is not the Soviet Union or indeed any other big powers who need the United States for their protection. It is all the others.

For the 30 years I have been involved with U. S. national security, our policy has been shaped by the assumption that we could shape other countries’ policies throughout the world. This has always been a bit of a myth.

Power is the true reserve currency in international affairs.

The moment it became in the interests of one or the other of the Great Powers to alter the status quo, none of these treaty structures ever stood in the way of such alteration.

Egyptian political elites are middlemen carrying out the instructions of Washington.

It looks like the so-called "winners" of the Cold War are determined to have it all, and reshape the world into a place that could better serve their interests alone.

Both Russia and the United States are struggling to define their proper roles in the world.

Our inaction created the opportunity for the Russians to reenter the Middle East in a powerful way for the first time since 1973.