“Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.”
“We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.”
“[I]t is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or of any number of men, at the entering into society to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights, when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution, is for the support, protection, and defence of those very rights; the principal of which, as is before observed, are life, liberty, and property. If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up an essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right of freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.”
“This won t stop her from getting elected, Shane said. Stupider people get elected all the time. It s America. We love the sleazy. And the crazy. I would like to think better of us, Claire said, but yeah. You re right.”
“In a lot of ways that poor little potato – Evan pointed directly at Jade’s French fries – symbolizes the reckless consumerism that plagues America.”
“For four centuries now, the American people have resigned themselves to natural disasters and acts of God: floods, prairie fires, blizzards, tornados, hurricanes, dust bowls, epidemics, academics, lawyers, and politicians.”
“If America runs on Dunkin , do I detect a slight limp?”