The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq

È questo che ammiro nella gioventù italiana, il lento scemare delle ambizioni, la consapevolezza che il meglio è di gran lunga alle spalle.Noi americani abbiamo molto da imparare dal loro declino pieno di grazia.

What America is, to me, is a guy doesn’t want to buy, you let him not buy, you respect his not buying. A guy has a crazy notion different from your crazy notion, you pat...

I’ve been lucky to travel through quite a bit of Europe and Australia, but I would love to do Asia and South America and South Africa.

Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.

Howard Dean has climbed into his own spider hole if he believes the capture of Saddam has not made America safer.

I apologise to coalition forces and all the families, … detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers.

[Martin Luther King] said that little black boys and little black girls would be able to join hands with little white boys and little white girls as sisters and brothers. Then he reminded both those...

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

In the Tea Party narrative, victory at the polls means a new American revolution, one that will ‘take our country back’ from everyone they disapprove of. But what they don’t realize is, there’s a catch:...

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.

I am pretty sure central banks will continue to print money, and the standards of living for people in the western world, not just in America, will continue to decline because the cost of living...

erhaps it was the difference in age between the countries—America with its expansive youth, building all those drive-in movie theaters and cowboy restaurants; Italians living in endless contraction, in the artifacts of generations, in the...

If Waterboarding is okay, then why don’t we let our police do it to criminals so they can find out what they know? Because it’s against the law. If we’re not going to be a...

America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.

If a nation’s security is only as strong as its weakest link, then America may be in serious trouble. Hawaii may be our weakest link and could have a serious impact on our nation’s immigration...

Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram.

[But] I have come across anything so painfully beautiful as that kiss. I wish it was something I could save and share with the world so I could tell the universe: this is what it’s...

And Carolina will be cheering on the beautiful daughter of Magda and Shalom Singer, the new Lady America Singer!

Some European countries and America are using the Security Council as a threat. They threaten us so that we give up our rights,

I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn’t heard of England.

Stop listening to the TV tell you about America the beautiful . . . get up and be America the beautiful.

America takes her writers too seriously.

Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that’s one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship.

If they think they can go forward as if nothing’s changed, they do not understand what the rest of America has witnessed over the past week.

This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.

America is so large and so diverse that it is overwhelming, but my first impressions are favorable.

America’s health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

Prolific irony – For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn’t pronounce the word “nuclear.

In America, there’s more of the question, should music be political or should it just be for entertainment purposes, whereas around the world that’s not even an issue. I think people just assume that music...

The United States remains the last best hope for a mankind plagued by tyranny and deprivation. America is no stronger than its people — and that means you and me. Well, I believe in you,...

My brothers and sisters of America, there is not the least shadow of hope that India can ever be Christianised. After two hundred years of vain efforts and of spending millions of dollars with the...

Leaders have the responsibility to denounce violence, strip it of legitimacy, stop it, … no question that America will stand by Israel.

Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I’m from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are in English, the surroundings I write about are American, but the...

I know America is the country that loved me most.

Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn’t an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn’t...

When America treats its friends this way, then they are in big trouble.

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.

When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.

Americans see democracy as a remedy for all ills-to be taken three times daily like prescription medicine. It works for them. Ergo – it should work for the world. What America naïvely forgets is that...

America loves to pray, God knows. America prays and prays and prays, it is the land of unchained prayer, and all this ceremonial praying is hard on Billy.

The Wild West mentality is still strong in America, … especially if you go to a place like Texas, where it’s alive and well, or maybe unwell: ‘No one’s taking away our guns.’ In New...

From leading the world into the age of democracy to spearheading the technological revolution, America has always been at the forefront of greatness.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

I examined a lot of CIA declassified UFO files, which are fascinating, because there was a huge UFO craze going on in America. There still is today, but it certainly started in ’47. And by...

The American and Russian capabilities in space science and technology mesh; they interdigitate. Each is strong where the other is weak. This is a marriage made in heaven – but one that has been surprisingly...

It’s halftime. Both teams are in their locker room discussing what they can do to win this game in the second half.It’s halftime in America, too. People are out of work and they’re hurting. And...

It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond.

America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated.