It's an Australian thing to be dismissive. We find that endearing. Americans don't. They believe what you say.
I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.
The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5.
The way Americans understand and treat other peoples almost guarantees that the world will suffer more trouble.
In truth, every American administration since that of Franklin D. Roosevelt has maintained close ties with the Saudi rulers, and for a single, simple reason: oil.
Everything can change, but Indian movies will not change much because we're so used to the dance and songs and everything. Even Americans are getting very attracted to all this.
The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing.
We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.
Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
Learning from the American experience, governments around the world have developed national innovation policies and programs to accelerate their economic prosperity and to help their citizens and companies compete globally.
The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to.
I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.
There's a lot of American kids think their food comes from the grocery store and the concept of seasonality has no meaning to them whatsoever.
The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.
American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.
The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.
Securing freedom has been a singular commitment of American presidents and patriots in and out of government for generations. But its perpetual continuation is not guaranteed.
Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.
