American Positions

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or positions:

“The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)

“What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned.”
—Claud Cockburn (1904–1981)