"Schwarzenegger represents a cultural politics that is
missing in America: culturally liberal on issues like sex,
drugs and rock 'n' roll, fiscally conservative on taxes
and spending, and hawkish on foreign policy." Time,
October 20, 2003, p. 67
"In America, there's an old standard that women ask
themselves when sizing up a guy: 'Is he gay - or just Euro?'".
Newsweek, October 27, 2003, p. 14
"Nowadays you need a bare bottom even if you're just trying
to launch a handbag." Giorgio Armani, quoted from The
Sunday Times, October 26, 2003, online
edition.
"You only go on a long-distance bus in the United
States because either you cannot afford to fly or - and
this is really licking the bottom of the barrel in America
- you cannot afford a car. Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent
- Travels in Small Town America - and Neither Here Nor There
- Travels in Europe (London, 1992), p. 124
"It is now almost impossible to distinguish, at least
from the way they speak, the products of an expensive education
from the alumni of the worst state delinquent-sitting services
that are sometimes called schools." Theodore Dalrymple
in The
Spectator, October 25, 2003, p. 16
"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us.
Pigs treat us as equals." Winston Churchill
"The Bush doctrine, I believe, is less a broad manifestation
of American national character than of short-sighted decisions
made by a particularly extreme American administration."
Harold Hongju Koh in The
Economist, November 1st, 2003, p. 25
"Europeans are worse than cockroaches." Martin
Steyn in The
Spectator, November 8, 2003
"Some things are true even if George W. Bush believes
them." Fareed
Zakaria in Newsweek,
November 17, 2003. p. 19
"For 50 years, it has constantly been repeated to
the inhabitants of the United States that they form the
only religious, enlightened, and free people. They see that
up to now, democratic institutions have prospered among
them; they therefore have an immense opinion of themselves,
and they are not far from believing that they form a species
apart in the human race." A. de Toqueville,
quoted from: The
Economist, November 8th, 2003, "A
Survey of America", p. 4
"Almost as complicated as a woman. Except it's on
time." Advertisement for IWC watches, seen in: The
Spectator, 15 November, 2003, p. 11
"Question: How many people work in the European Commission?
- Answer: About a third of them." The Lost Continent
and Neither Here Nor There, by Bill Bryson (London,
1992), p. 313
"Practically the only international figure known to
the insular US electorate - leaving aside the Pope, Osama
bin Laden and Saddam Hussein - is the Queen of England."
Peter Oborne in The
Spectator, 15 November, 2003, p. 14
"When former French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing
referred to the writing of the proposed EU constitution
as Europe’s ‘Philadelphia moment’, he was presumably referring
not to the composition of the United States’ constitution
in 1787, but to the popular brand of processed cheese."
The
Spectator, 29 November, 2003
"If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage
unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the
commercial nature of normal human interaction, and probably
is a major impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution."
Linus Torvalds on the argument that without a profit motive
there is no copyright. quoted from: Info
World
"I'm sorry, we don't do God." Alastair Campbell,
on Mr Blair being asked a question about religion by Vanity
Fair, quoted from The
Spectator, 13/20 December, 2003, p. 103
"If you don't have stories, you don't have anything.
They are all we have, you see, to protect us from sickness
and death." Native American author Leslie Marmon Silko,
quoted from The Victoria Advocate, Dec. 25,
2003, p. 10A
"Gerhard, you have had four wives - what can you tell
us about women?" Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
to German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder at a lunch of
European leaders on Dec. 12, 2003, quoted from The
Economist, Dec. 20, 2003, p. 71
"The more robust Americans are more familiar with
firearms and, unlike us, they do not confine the ownership
and use of handguns solely to the criminal classes."
Norman Tebbit in The
Spectator, Jan. 3, 2004
"[...] King David lied about his sex life more than
2,400 years ago, and they still teach about him in Sunday
school." T.R. Fehrenbach in San Antonio Express-News,
Jan. 18, 2004, p. 3H
"He may be an SOB, but at least he's our SOB."
Former US president Lyndon B. Johnson about a dictator whom
the USA supported. Quoted from The Victoria Advocate,
Jan. 19, 2004, p. 13A
"If the United Nations put only half the resolve into
defeating dictators that it does into eliminating gender
inequality, the world would be a very happy place."
Ross Clark in The
Spectator,
17th January 2004, p. 13
"Der Staat ist die große Fiktion, nach der sich jedermann
bemüht, auf Kosten jedermanns zu leben." French
economist Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)
"[...] ineffective, based on incorrect or at least
unsubstantiated economic theory, badly designed, poorly
carried out and in most cases a source of wrong incentives."
A recent World Bank report on subsidies for the poorer EU
regions, quoted from The Economist, Jan. 24, 2004,
p. 48
"The nicotine Nazis have such a grip on New York that
it is an offence to have an ashtray in your office."
Stuart Reid in The
Spectator,
Jan. 24, 2004, p. 8
"Seven congressmen are ZOMBIES!" Weekly
World News, online edition
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