States Lose

Famous quotes containing the words states and/or lose:

“By intervening in the Vietnamese struggle the United States was attempting to fit its global strategies into a world of hillocks and hamlets, to reduce its majestic concerns for the containment of communism and the security of the Free World to a dimension where governments rose and fell as a result of arguments between two colonels’ wives.”
—Frances Fitzgerald (b. 1940)

“One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.”
—Oliver Stone (b. 1946)