John Irving Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see how ridiculous they appear to the rest of the world! They should listen to someone else's version of themselves--to anyone else's version! Every country knows more about America than Americans know about themselves! And Americans know absolutely nothing about any other country!

  John Irving

  Country, Years, Two

• You can't say you're going to ban something in the name of good taste, because then you have directed someone to play the role of good-taste police. We - Americans - permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it.

  John Irving

  Country, Play, Names

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1997.

• If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one. But we are a country - USA - that likes to be punitive. We want to restrict. It is a kind of religious fervor run amuck.

  John Irving

  Running, Country, Religious

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1997.

• I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I've seen in the country since John Kennedy.

  John Irving

  Country, Thinking, Hopeful

• We permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it - and reward it in all manner of ways.

  John Irving

  Country, Rewards, Way

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1997.

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