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The Americans

«Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial.»
«If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again.»
«I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about, and maybe you can cut out recipes in the newspaper of Persian dishes.»
«I find myself sympathizing with the Americans. Why should they buy this rubbish? Even we aren't buying it in any great numbers.»
«In 1776, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace»
«It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans»
«In the United States, there one feels free . . . Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.»
«As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?»
«Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.»
«I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.»

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