“What's more American than violence?" Hayduke wanted to know. "Violence, it's as American as pizza pie.”
“Violence is as American as cherry pie”
“I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue.”
“Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.”
“The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.”
“I believe there's something very salutary in, say, beating up a gay-bashing policeman. Preferably one fights through the courts, through the laws, through education, but if at a neighborhood level violence is necessary, I'm all for violence. It's the only thing Americans understand.”