The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a foreigner's visit to Congress - these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage, these persons are a reflection on the democratic process rather than of it; they expose it in its underwear.

You know what my favourite quotation is?:It's from Chaucer... Criseyde says it, 'I am myne owene woman, wel at ese.'

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, …

Ultimately, the basic issue is whether America will provide global leadership that springs from the unity and the integrity of the American people, or whether …

In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.

It is Nixon himself who represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character that almost every country in the world has learned to …