During the 1960s, large groups of people who are normally passive and apathetic began to try to enter the political arena to press their demands.... The naive might call that democracy, but that's because they don't understand. The sophisticated understand that that's the crisis of democracy.

It hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world’s largest open-air prison.

In studying language we can discover many basic properties of this cognitive structure, its organization, and also the genetic predispositions that provide the foundation for its development. So in this respect, linguistics, first of all, tries to characterize a major feature of human cognitive organization. And second, I think it may provide a suggestive model for the study of other cognitive systems. And the collection of these systems is one aspect of human nature.

The United States invaded Iraq to gain control of one of the major sources of the world's energy.

Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

[There is] is all part of the whole neoliberal shift in the economy. But the parties have shifted to the right.