The [Ronald] Reagan administration told the business world that they were not going to enforce the labor laws.
Noam ChomskyAnyone in a position to overcome barriers to free thought and communication should do so.
Noam ChomskyIt was declared by Congress that marijuana makes people insane. But . . . lawyers, defense lawyers, got the idea, OK, I can use this for an insanity defense.
Noam ChomskyThere's a strange myth of Anglo-Saxonism. When the University of Virginia was founded by Thomas Jefferson, for example, its law school offered the study of "Anglo-Saxon Law." And that myth of Anglo-Saxonism carries right over into the early twentieth century.
Noam ChomskyOn abortion: We are talking about ambiguous issues of a complicated kind where you have to balance conflicting interests and concerns.
Noam ChomskyWikileaks is providing information on what ambassadors are sending to Washington and things like that. Maybe some of that has a right to some kind of secrecy, but there is a heavy burden and I think its pretty hard to meet. I haven't read everything from Wikileaks by any means but the parts that I have read and seen I think are things the public should know.
Noam Chomsky