America Quotes
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Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.
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That they are individuals, rugged even, but in fact they are emptied out, isolate, mass men without a mass, although they’re not men, obviously, but boys, perpetual boys, Peter Pans, man-children, since America is adolescence without end, boys without religion on the one hand or a charismatic leader on the other; they don’t even have a father—President Carter!—to kill or a father to tell them to kill the Jew; they have no Jew; they are libidinally driven to mass surrender without anything to surrender to; they don’t even believe in money or in science, or those beliefs are insufficient; their country has fought and lost its last real war; in a word, they are overfed; in a word, they are starving. These kids, Klaus said, just need a good whipping and some physical labor; these kids, Klaus also said, are undergoing a profound archaic regression.
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I am sure of the fact that Fidel and Chávez are commanders of the forces of freedom in America, to liberate America and the world.
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The real men—who are themselves in fact perpetual boys, since America is adolescence without end—had to differentiate themselves with violence.
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What's great about America is anybody can run for president. That is literally true.
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The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you think about it, journalism is one of the pillars on which our society is perched.
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Foreigners will eventually own so much of America that there will be nothing left to trade.
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Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.
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In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.
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I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now.
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America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.
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Football is the No. 1 sport in America.
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Clint Eastwood said, the only things America has contributed to civilization are the western and jazz. And I don't think westerns are bad, but lots of people make great cinema. But jazz is right there.
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The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.
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Dante and I were the last two boys in America who grew up without television.
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I felt I had to work even harder in order to help two sets of parents. Most of my money I send home to let my parents manage. The rest I use for living expenses in America.
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Together let's defend the shared values that already make America and Israel great.
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We haven't really got to see that much of America because when we're touring there's always interviews to do or whatever, but the things I like most about America are the food -- nachos! -- and the roller coaster at Magic Mountain. The thing I liked least was the cold weather when we were there in February -- it's much better in summer.
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When I was in the Senate, I had a number of trade deals that came before me, and I held them all to the same test. Will they create jobs in America? Will they raise incomes in America? And are they good for our national security? Some of them I voted for.
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Race remains a significant challenge in America.
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America is our continent. You feel in the daily language that Americans use the word "America" to erase the rest of the continent from the map. And, of course, the language is clearly a reflection of the geopolitical reality: the domination of the United States over the rest of the continent.
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I really want Congress to do its job, the constitutional power that they have, to halt an imperial presidency, to halt this fundamental transformation of America that is making us an unrecognizable mess of a nation at this time.
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No one has any idea what's next... the uncertainty of the business climate in America is frightening, frightening to everybody, and it's delaying the recovery.
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In America they really do mythologise people when they die.
