“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.”

“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.”

“America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything could happen in America.”

“America hadn't really been suited for its long and tiresome role as the Last Superpower, the World's Policeman. As a patriotic American, Oscar was quite content to watch other people's military coming home in boxes for a while. The American national character wasn't suited for global police duties. It never had been. Tidy and meticulous people such as the Swiss and the Swedes were the types who made good cops. America was far better suited to be the World's Movie Star. The world's tequila-addled pro-league bowler. The world's acerbic, bipolar stand-up comedian. Anything but a somber and tedious nation of socially responsible centurions.”

“When good Americans die, they go to Paris'.'Where do bad Americans go?''They stay in America'.”

“The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.”