You can imagine a different world in which a number of species developed with different genetically determined linguistic systems. It hasn't happened in evolution. What has happened is that one species has developed, and the genetic structure of this species happens to involve a variety of intricate abstract principles of linguistic organization that, therefore, necessarily constrain every language, and, in fact, create the basis for learning language as a way of organizing experience rather than constituting something learned from experience.

Stock ownership in the US is very highly concentrated. [Shareholder actions are] something, but it's like the old Communist Party in the USSR, it would be nice to see more protest inside the Communist Party but it's not democracy. It's not going to happen. [Shareholder actions] are a good step, but they're mostly symbolic.

WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for - presidential medal of honor.

Armed attack has a definition in international law. It means sudden, overwhelming, instantaneous ongoing attack.

It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it.

I think we can be reasonably confident that if the American population had the slightest idea of what is being done in their name, they would be utterly appalled.

The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.