USA

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

—Edgar Watson Howe

You get fifteen Democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

—Patrick Leahy

We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.

—Louis D. Brandeis

In the next voyage of the Mayflower, after she carried the Pilgrims, she was employed in transporting a cargo of slaves from Africa.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

America: a country where everything is done to prove life isn't tragic.

—Albert Camus

America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.

—Laurence J. Peter

Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.

—George Will

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.

—Doug Larson

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then—we elected them.

—Lily Tomlin

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

—Peter Ustinov

The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him.

—Jim Samuels

You may break any written law in America with impunity. There is an unwritten law that you break at your peril. It is: do not attack the profit system.

—Mary Heaton Vorse

You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

—George W. Bush

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half have never voted for president. One hopes it is the same half.

—Gore Vidal