America Quotes

• "The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance, they invented algebra. And this is why we have to go to war with Saddam Hussein this minute and bomb the shish kebab out of him before he invents trig and chemistry and the whole of America flunks high school."
  By: P. J. O'Rourke (Give War a Chance)
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• "West Germans are tall, pink, pert and orthodontically corrected, with hands, teeth and hair as clean as their clothes and clothes as sharp as their looks. Except for the fact that they all speak English pretty well, they're indistinguishable from Americans."
  By: P. J. O'Rourke (Give War a Chance)
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• "Each American embassy comes with two permanent features – a giant anti-American demonstration and a giant line for American visas. Most demonstrators spend half their time burning Old Glory and the other half waiting for green cards."
  By: P. J. O'Rourke (Holidays in Hell)
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• "This country is so urbanized we think low-fat milk comes from cows on Nutri/System weight-loss plans."
  By: P. J. O'Rourke (Parliament of Whores)
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• "Kosovo certainly taught the world a lesson. Wherever there’s suffering, injustice, and oppression, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it’s happening."
  By: P. J. O'Rourke (Peace Kills)
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• "America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don’t think that way. We don’t think much at all, thank God. Start thinking and pretty soon you get ideas, and then you get idealism, and the next thing you know you’ve got ideology, with millions dead in concentration camps and gulags."
  By: P. J. O'Rourke (Peace Kills)
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• "In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever."
  By: Oscar Wilde (The Soul of Man under Socialism)
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• "October 12, the Discovery. It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it."
  By: Mark Twain
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• "Americans can eat garbage, provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup, mustard, chili sauce, Tabasco sauce, cayenne pepper, or any other condiment which destroys the original flavor of the dish."
  By: Henry Miller
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• "I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30."
  By: Groucho Marx
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• "The poor Americans are so busy defending the rights of Hindus in Pakistan, Moslems in India, Jews in Palestine, Koreans in Japan, Italians in Yugoslavia and Hungarians in Czechoslovakia that they simply cannot give a thought to Negroes in the United States."
  By: George Mikes (How to Scrape Skies)
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• "American radio is the reverse of the Shakespearean stage. In Shakespeare's time the world's greatest dramas were acted with the most primitive technical arrangements; on the American air the world's most primitive writing is performed under perfect technical conditions."
  By: George Mikes (How to Scrape Skies)
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• "It is great fun dying in the United States of America. It is great fun first of all for the undertakers who make a wonderful living out of it but also for the deceased who suddenly becomes the centre of attention and fuss."
  By: George Mikes (How to Scrape Skies)
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• "It was decided almost two hundred years ago that English should be the language spoken in the United States. It is not known, however, why this decision has not been carried out."
  By: George Mikes (How to Scrape Skies)
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• "The Americans are extremely gadget minded people and American gadgets have a peculiar characteristic: they work."
  By: George Mikes (How to Scrape Skies)
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• "They (Americans) have their national game, baseball - which is cricket played with a strong American accent - and they have a national language, entirely their own, unlike any other language spoken on the earth."
  By: George Mikes (How to Scrape Skies)
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