International Views Quotes

Basically, there are two kinds of stereotypes out there in the world about America. There's America the Goliath - the big, powerful, bullying country that pushes its way around the world and gets its ways, pursues its own interests nakedly, irrespective of what others want. And the other stereotype is America, the land of opportunity, where everyone can go and do anything, be anything, make any dreams come true.

People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself.

I've never met any strong critic of the United States anywhere in the world who gave us any credit for having limit on government.

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.

I went to University in 1991, and I remember, nobody thought of India. I remember conversations where people would laugh and say, "Do you have elephants on the road?" Nobody is saying that today.

Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct in wanting to organize their country in their own way politically. This happens to be pretty much the opinion of western Europe and the other parts of the world.

World opinion is not the same thing as your own [country's] public opinion.

Canada, by others in the global family, is, for some reason, taken seriously. They have about 30 million people. They have some natural resources.