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American Quotes by Stephen Kinzer
- The reason that Americans have not been able to see the great strategic benefit that could accrue from a closer relationship with Iran is emotion.
- Because Iran understands Afghanistan far better than Americans do, making Iran a partner in a long-term effort to transform Afghan agriculture makes sense.
- Americans overthrew governments only when economic interests coincided with ideological ones.
- Some major American publishing houses still seek work by foreign writers.
- What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American…
- American oil companies - including Amoco, Unocal, Exxon, Pennzoil - have invested billions of dollars in Azerbaijan and plan to invest billions more. As a…
- Hostility toward Iran may not be the silliest of all American foreign policies - that would probably be the continuing trade embargo of Cuba -…
- Conflict with the United States is one of the overwhelming facts of Latin American history.
- The United States has means to wound Latin American countries deeply, chiefly by altering trade policies to cut imports in ways that would throw thousands…
- American strategic doctrine suggests that Mexico is of second-level importance to the United States. It ranks below Japan and Indonesia, Brazil and India, Egypt and…
- If women are being oppressed in Egypt or children are being forced to join armies in the Congo, for example, it is not only acceptable…
- It is truly vital for the United States to assure that it is not attacked with weapons of mass destruction; to prevent wars in other…
- Only one American has given his life for Iranian democracy. He was a young idealist from Nebraska named Howard Baskerville. In 1907, fresh out of…
- Successive American presidents have turned a blind eye to piles of evidence that Saudi money is being used to foment holy war against America.
More American Quotes
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad
- When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me. — Dave Attell
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their… — John Avlon
- An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt
- If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying. — Irving Babbitt
- Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America. — Joe Baca
- Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day. — Joe Baca
- Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further… — Joe Baca