Time Quote by Elaine Dundy

“These Americans, under their forthcoming manner, their surface-gush, as some might call it, have an odd reticence about what goes on underneath.”

— Edith Wharton

“It had happened again. I had met another American whose generosity, it began to seem to me, gushed out of the spirit of this…

— Peter Jenkins

“They were both overwhelmed by the sudden flatness that comes over American travellers in quiet foreign places. No stimuli worked upon them, no voices…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.”

— Ronald Reagan

“But know this America: we will meet them”

— Barack Obama

“Humans should be grateful if they haven't been in contact with aliens, while humans are still making bloodshed with each other.”

— Toba Beta

“The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becomes a preoccupation to folks around…

— Raquel Cepeda

“Watching it all, I had a panic attack. Holy shit! Most of the Thirld World sees America through the actions of backpackers. They're our…

— Franz Wisner

“The Americans love to play diplomacy by making scares. It's a crude method.”

— James Aldridge

“[...] I stated to them among other things that no country inflicts death so readily upon the inhabitants of other countries, frightens so many…

— Mohsin Hamid

“Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new…

— John F. Kennedy

“We will always be subjected to these us-versus-them hysteria campaigns as long as people in power seek to divide Americans for their own cynical…

— Arsalan Iftikhar