Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.
Noam ChomskyMy speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.
Noam ChomskyAbout specific social issues, there is a great deal to say that departs very far from truism and is, accordingly, significant and controversial.
Noam ChomskyIran has been calling for it for years, and the Arab countries support it. Everyone except the United States and Israel support it. The U.S. won't allow it because it means inspecting Israel's nuclear weapons. The U.S. has continued to block it, and in fact blocked it again just a couple of days ago; it just wasn't widely reported. Iran's nuclear program, as U.S. intelligence points out, is deterrent, and the bottom line is that the U.S. and Israel don't want Iran to have a deterrent.
Noam Chomsky