America Quote by Huey Newton

Parts of the United States are taking on a Third World look.

— Noam Chomsky

Everyone has something to hide. And if they couldn't hide it the world would be in a lot worse mess than it is.

— Richard Matheson

I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.

— Will Oldham

I don't hide out. If you build a wall around yourself, it draws people to invade it. Fear is the enemy.

— Matt Dillon

The United States is a very insular society. Most people know very little about the outside world and don't care that much. They're concerned…

— Noam Chomsky

You could never hide yourself in these places - in Mies's Farnsworth house, for example. That was a mistake of Modernism. People need places…

— Ben van Berkel

I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac.…

— Tom Waits

By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world.

— Roger Mahony

The siren song of isolationism is tempting. But allowing vacuums of American influence around the world to be filled by terrorists and exploited by…

— John E. James

We are used to facing the United States as a fortress from the outside. Now we are finding a breach to penetrate the country…

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

The US ... cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth ... it lives in a perpetual present.…

— Jean Baudrillard

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

— Shirley Hazzard