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"America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence; perhaps the only piece of practical politics that is also theoretical politics and also great literature."
"America has a genius for the encouragement of fame."
"America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement."
"For students who are in the most creative group in America to somehow be presumed to be narrow is just completely meshugga."
"I went to Europe to live in 1961. I'd never have written Julian if it hadn't been for the sequestered life that I led in Rome and the classical library at the America Academy."
"Come to me and show me a small cancer and I'll tell you you've got a small cancer that should be cut out. That's realism but in America it's called cynicism."
"[America is] the land where people find whatever they have lost."
"Diplomacy has more to do with (credible) threats than with sweet reason. And threats from America are a lot more credible, nowadays."
"I obviously disagree with the individuals who do not support rural America and do not support rural airports. Under their philosophy, maybe we shouldnt even be paving roads in rural America, because there are fewer people that drive on them."
"One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work."
"The coverage of Central America in recent months points up one of the ugly truths about the American press: the better the news, the less of it you get. As the war began to turn against the Communist guerillas in El Salvador, there was a palpable dip in the attention paid to it."
"Nicaragua was destabilizing Central America, meaning moving in a direction the US didn't like. So Nicaragua was crushed."
"I suspect most likely that more Nazis came to America. I was a student at Harvard during the early 1950s. There was practically no Jewish faculty there."
"Politicians don't want democracy here in America, why would they want it in the Middle East?"
"The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project that has changed U.S. society enormously."
"Evaluating countries is senseless and I would never put things in those terms, but that some of America's advances, particularly in the area of free speech, that have been achieved by centuries of popular struggle, are to be admired."
"The 'corporatization of America' during the past century has been an attack on democracy."
"Latin America has much richer resources. You'd expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings."
"In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category."
"Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against."
