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"Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars."

"There's a saying among prospectors: 'Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.'"

"Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all."

"Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?"

"As soon as Young read my statements and saw clearly what I was saying, he stopped communicating with me."

"I'm simply saying that there are advantages in sending a skilled diplomat who can always say, 'I'll get back to you on that, Mr. Minister'."

"You really have to listen to yourself and know if what someone is saying is true for you."

"No, sir, I'm not saying that charming, witty and warm copy won't sell. I'm just saying I've seen thousands of charming, witty campaigns that didn't sell."
Explore more quotes by Noam Chomsky

"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system."

"Actually, Bush, technically speaking, is not really President-because he refused to take the Oath of Office. I don't know how many of you noticed this, but the wording of the Oath of Office is written in the Constitution, so you can't fool around with it-and Bush refused to read it. The Oath of Office says something about, I promise to do this, that, and the other thing, and Bush added the words, so help me God. Well, that's illegal: he's not President, if anybody cares."

"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists."

"Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections."

"The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history."

"The debt is being cynically exploited by the far right, with collusion of the Democrat establishment, to undermine what remains of social programs, public education, unions, and, in general, remaining barriers to corporate tyranny."

"States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions."
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