For men who want to flee Family Man America and never come back, there is a guaranteed solution: homosexuality is the new French F...oreign Legion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the last fifteen years or so, the women's novel has turned into the Amtrak of American literature; crashing through the gates a...t Aristotle, jumping the tracks at Horace, ignoring the flashing red lights at Boileau, and scooping up Alexander Pope in the cowcatcher. The rules are down and it's every stylist for herself in this best of all Tupperware parties, where plot and characterization have been replaced by the kind of non-stop chatter that enabled the French Foreign Legion to meet its enlistment quota for a hundred and fifty years. In the unlikely event that future scholars will bother to give our era a cultural tag, it will be called the Age of Women's Litter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a close tie of affection between sovereigns and their subjects; and as chaste wives should have no eyes but for their hus...bands, so faithful liegemen should keep their regards at home and not look after foreign crowns. For my part I like not for my sheep to wear a stranger's mark nor to dance after a foreigner's whistle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political inter...ests are entirely distinct from ours. Their mutual jealousies, their balance of power, their complicated alliances, their forms and principles of government, are all foreign to us. They are nations of eternal war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by exp...erts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Maybe it's understandable what a history of failures America's foreign policy has been. We are, after all, a country full of peopl...e who came to America to get away from foreigners. Any prolonged examination of the U.S. government reveals foreign policy to be America's miniature schnauzer--a noisy but small and useless part of the national household.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the i...dea behind foreign policy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You are, I am sure, aware that genuine popular support in the United States is required to carry out any Government policy, foreig...n or domestic. The American people make up their own minds and no governmental action can change it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »