United states Quotes by Christopher Hitchens

“There is no such thing as notoriety in the United States these days, let alone infamy. Celebrity is all.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Among the privileges of being a superpower, the right and the ability to make a local quarrel into a global one ranks…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do I have to demonstrate this? The Taliban's annihilation of music and culture?…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Don't write in to ask whether I would prefer Gingrich to Clinton. Ask, rather, whether Clinton prefers Gingrich to you. Go triangulate…

— Christopher Hitchens

“In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.”

— Christopher Hitchens

The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The 'pre-emption' versus 'prevention' debate may be a distinction without much difference. The important thing is to have it understood that the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“ Nihil humanum a me alienum puto, said the Roman poet Terence: 'Nothing human is alien to me.' The slogan of the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Not to dampen any parade, but if one asks if there is a single thing about Mr. Obama's Senate record, or state…

— Christopher Hitchens

Say 'Toronto' or 'Ontario,' and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with…

— Christopher Hitchens

The first thing I can remember I ever wanted was to go to the United States. And for reasons that are as…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Sarah Palin appears to have no testable core conviction except the belief (which none of her defenders denies that she holds, or…

— Christopher Hitchens

An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days.…

— Christopher Hitchens

“One might come up with other and kinder distinctions (I shall not be doing so) but the plain fact about the senator…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Then all at once our personal and political quarrels were made very abruptly to converge. In the special edition of the London…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Mrs. Clinton, speaking to a black church audience on Martin Luther King Day last year, did describe President George W. Bush as…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Lefever describes his financing plan with modesty: "'Our detailed budget is realistic, but does not take into account the inflation that may…

— Christopher Hitchens

“It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I can see why people find him [Hugo Chávez] charming. He's very ebullient, as they say. I've heard him make a speech,…

— Christopher Hitchens

“It is notorious that the news of the Emancipation Proclamation was kept from the people of Texas and not celebrated until 'Juneteenth'.…

— Christopher Hitchens

“A little later, the Apollo mission was consummated and there were Americans on the moon. I remember distinctly looking up from the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Inevitably came the time when he angrily repudiated his former paladin Yasser Arafat. In fact, he described him to me as 'the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Yet isn't it all—all of it, every single episode and detail of the Clinton saga—exactly like that? And isn't some of it…

— Christopher Hitchens

“On my desk is an appeal from the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. It asks me to become a…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Remaining for a moment with the question of legality and illegality: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1368, unanimously passed, explicitly recognized the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“This brings us to the crux moment in the supposed 'Show Trial' melodrama. Employing the confusing and confused testimony of Jude Wanniski…

— Christopher Hitchens

“A local phrase book, entitled Speak in Korean , has the following handy expressions. In the section 'On the Way to the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The matter on which I judge people is their willingness, or ability, to handle contradiction. Thus Paine was better than Burke when…

— Christopher Hitchens

“What do you have to forget or overlook in order to desire that this dysfunctional clan once more occupies the White House…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Attempts to locate oneself within history are as natural, and as absurd, as attempts to locate oneself within astronomy. On the day…

— Christopher Hitchens

“1. Bangladesh… In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Hitherto, the Palestinians had been relatively immune to this Allahu Akhbar style. I thought this was a hugely retrograde development. I said…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I resolutely refuse to believe that the state of Edward's health had anything to do with this, and I don't say this…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The North Korean capital, Pyongyang, is a city consecrated to the worship of a father-son dynasty. (I came to think of them,…

— Christopher Hitchens

“[ Said during a debate when his opponent asserted that atheism and belief in evolution lead to Nazism :] Atheism by itself…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Pettiness often leads both to error and to the digging of a trap for oneself. Wondering (which I am sure he didn't)…

— Christopher Hitchens

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

— Christopher Hitchens