Noam Chomsky United States Quotations

The United States happens to be the only state in the world that has been condemned by the World Court for international terrorism.

Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.

It's quite extraordinary to hear a supposedly learned person call the United States a leading terrorist nation, one of the leading terrorist nations in the world. It's false and very treacherous teaching.

In the United States everyone is an illegal immigrant - everyone except the people in Indian Reservations. This is an immigrant society.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

Remember, the U.S. is a powerful state, it's not like Libya. If Libya wants to carry out terrorist acts, they hire Carlos the Jackal or something. The United States hires terrorist states.

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

In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison - they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.

The U.S. - the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that's hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.

The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.

Where are the drug cartels getting their weapons? They are being provided by the United States. Cut off that flow of arms.

Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes... to an extent, that's true elsewhere, including the United States, but it's been pretty extreme in Greece.