“The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America. ”

“When Captain America died, Americans heard it in an American way: through the media. When Captain Britain died, the British felt it in their chests.”

“One cannot be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.”

“There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you”

“Just because you refuse to acknowledge something, refuse to look at it or think about it, doesn’t mean it’s not there, that it doesn’t affect you and the choices you make in your life.”

“Whenever people in that part of the world asked Patterson about the wonders of America, the possibilities and the hope of America, Patterson would say that it was a good and fine place but all the Americans were running it into the ground and that it would be a far better place if it had no Americans.”