The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them since.

There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete with no more to accomplish; that, for better or worse, we are what we are, and the only danger to our comfort is external.

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.

I can't name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I'm told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don't print them in 'The New York Times.'