Anti-american Quotes

• I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

  Susan Sarandon

  Tired, I'm Tired, Asks

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• To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

  Barack Obama

  Friends, Leather Jackets, Rocks

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.100, Canongate Books

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• Pot had helped, and booze, maybe a little blow when you could afford it.

  Barack Obama

  Blow, Littles, Pot

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.93, Canongate Books

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• It's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment, as a way to explain their frustrations.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Frustration, Gun

  "Obama 'sorry' for God and guns jibe" by Caroline Davies, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2008.

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• Americans need to understand that they have lost their country. The rest of the world needs to recognize that Washington is not merely the most complete police state since Stalinism, but also a threat to the entire world. The hubris and arrogance of Washington, combined with Washington's huge supply of weapons of mass destruction, make Washington the greatest threat that has ever existed to all life on the planet. Washington is the enemy of all humanity.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Life, Country, Mass Destruction

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• The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  War, Winning, Tyrants

  Samuel P. Huntington (1997). “The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order”, p.51, Penguin Books India

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• America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Country, Freedom, America

  Speech on September 26, 1891. "Peter Kropotkin: From Prince to Rebel". Book by George Woodcock and Ivan Avakumović, p. 269, 1990.

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• Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Country, Patriotic, America

  FaceBook post by Dinesh D'Souza from Apr 11, 2014

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• I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.

  John Podhoretz

  New York, Book, Self

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• I didn't even need America, I was so popular outside the country, until the prosecutin' attorney came from Washington, and said, judge, we cannot let this man go to Japan and fight, because they are anti-American.Now, if I want to leave the country, I know how to leave. Tomorrow. Quick. Easy. If I really want to leave. That's not the intention. The intention is to stop me from makin' a livin'. To punish me.

  Muhammad Ali

  Country, Fighting, Men

  Source: thefederalist.com

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• Poor Mexico. So far from God and so close to the United States.

  Porfirio Diaz

  God, Usa, United States

  "The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, and When". p. 387. Book by Ralph Keyes, New York City: St. Martin's Griffin, 2006.

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• It was in the 1960s that the left convinced itself that there is something fascistic about patriotism and something perversely "patriotic" about running down America. Anti-Americanism - a stand-in for hatred of Western civilization - became the stuff of sophisticates and intellectuals as never before. Flag burners became the truest "patriots" because dissent - not just from partisan politics, but the American project itself - became the highest virtue.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Running, Patriotic, America

  Jonah Goldberg (2008). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.197, Crown Forum

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• The United States is squandering international prestige and goodwill and intensifying global anti-American terrorism by unofficially condoning or abetting the Israeli confiscation and colonization of Palestinian territories.

  Jimmy Carter

  United States, Territory, Terrorism

  Jimmy Carter (2014). “The Jimmy Carter Library”, p.759, Simon and Schuster

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• Each American embassy comes with two permanent features - a giant anti-American demonstration and a giant line for American visas. Most demonstrators spend half their time burning Old Glory and the other half waiting for green cards.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Old Glory

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.18, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease. It rises up in my throat like acid reflux, that fashionable American sickness. I now loathe the United States and what it has done to Iraq and the rest of the helpless world.

  Margaret Drabble

  Iraq, United States, Done

  "I loathe America, and what it has done to the rest of the world" by Margaret Drabble, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 8, 2003.

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• College campuses have become fascist colonies of anti-American hate speech, hypersensitivity, speech codes, banded words and prohibited scientific inquiry.

  Ann Coulter

  Hate, College, Speech

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• Everyone in comedy thinks if you go to the U.S. you become a global star but, unfortunately, I've always been a bit anti-American - so I never did.

  Jo Brand

  Stars, Thinking, Comedy

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• Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.

  James Fallows

  People, Prejudice, Messages

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• To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.

  Arundhati Roy

  Imagination, Racist

  Arundhati Roy (2003). “War Talk”, p.50, South End Press

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• Is there anything more anti-American than McCarthyism?

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Mccarthyism

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• In Pakistan anti-American protesters set a Kentucky Fried chicken restaurant on fire. The protesters mistakenly thought they were attacking high-ranking U.S. military official Colonel Sanders.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Military, Fire, Kentucky

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• Look, [Mitt] Romney comes from a religion founded by a criminal who was anti-American, pro-slavery, and a rapist. And he comes from that lineage and says, 'I respect this religion fully.'

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Criminals, Looks, Slavery

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• We got email today from an LGF reader who was browsing the Lexis research system and discovered that anti-American, anti-capitalist icon Noam Chomsky has embarrassingly capitalist tastes; among other expensive property he owns a 36,155 square foot home near Cambridge, a 13,503 square foot vacation home, and four boats. And we won't even mention the cars. Teaching kids to hate their own country seems to pay quite well.

  Charles Foster Johnson

  Country, Hate, Teaching

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• It's beyond me how anybody can look at these protestors and call them anything other than what they are: anti-American, anticapitalist, pro-Marxist communists.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Liberty, Looks, Communist

  "They Said What?: Astonishing Quotes on American Democracy, Power, and Dissent". Book by Jim Hunt, p. 22, 2009.

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• On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.

  Ted Rall

  Pakistan, States, Planets

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