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""I wouldn't be in your position" - old saw. If there is any political move that I would advocate it would be an alliance between America and Red China, if they'd have us."
"I've seen villages in South America with no police whatever. Then the cops would arrive, then the sanitary inspectors, and before you know it they've got all the problems - crime, juvenile delinquency, the whole works - just like us."
"America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting."
"The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future."
"Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people."
"What America needs is a political revolution."
"I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country."
"If you see what passes as the news on the networks in the United States, there's virtually no coverage of the rest of the world, not even of neighboring countries like Mexico or neighboring continents like Latin America."
"Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?"
"America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain."
"I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special."
"In America and Europe, the nomadism is of trade and curiosity."
"Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus."
"America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous."
"Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected the punctuation, the botany, the entomology, the geography, and the chronology of previous works of mine and will, I hope, not spare his services on the present occasion."
"The issue I have always felt most strongly about is hunger in America, in particular the children."
"A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration."
"New York police force seems like unlike any other in America and even the world. There's a very specific culture dynamic, a specific chemistry. There's almost a specific set of rules because of the city and the size of it."
"The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American"
"The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels to the horrible squareness of our institutions, the idiocy of power, the debasement of sexual instincts, and the failure of writers to be alienated enough. The poems and novels of these same rebellious spirits, and their theoretical statements, are grimy and gritty and very boring too, besides being nonsensical, and it is evident by now that polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art either."
