“It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.”
Woody Allen
“I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.”
Thomas Jefferson
“America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.”
Hunter S. Thompson
“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.”
Winston Churchill
“An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.”
George Bernard Shaw
“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
Oscar Wilde
“America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.”
Bruce Jackson