The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and now the Americans.

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

I think when the president of the United States calls for military action, he should do it for a united people, especially when the methods have been so cruel, so explicitly directed at Americans.

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants.

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they’re equally as good at reconciliation.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That’s all to the good.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 – Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger – they come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.

A large majority of Americans believe that the U.N., not the U.S., should take the lead in working with Iraqis to transfer authentic sovereignty as well as in economic reconstruction and maintaining civic order.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

America is not just a country, it’s an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.

Whatever I am, it’s natural… I don’t have to pretend to be aggressive, don’t have to show the opposition that I am on the field. Being aggressive comes naturally to me, helps me perform.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.

In the late Fifties and early Sixties, opposition to state terror and aggression and torture and so on was zero. That was a horrible time: the massive Kennedy terror operation against Cuba, the first attacks on Vietnam in 1962, the imposition of national security states in South America.

On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won’t spend yourself quickly.

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

I’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

The emotions in a song – the anger, aggression – have got to be legitimate.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

I don’t know why they gave me a knighthood – though it’s very nice of them – but I only ever use the title in the U.S. The Americans insist on it and get offended if I don’t.

The truth is that the vast majority of Americans are good, fair, and just, and they want their country to reflect those ideals.

Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.

Being ‚contented‘ ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

All the kids are learning different languages. I asked them what languages they wanted to learn, and Shi is learning Khmai, which is a Cambodian language; Pax is focusing on Vietnamese, Mad has taken to German and Russian, Z is speaking French, Vivienne really wanted to learn Arabic, and Knox is learning sign language.

The prescription for endless war poses a far greater danger to Americans than perceived enemies do, for reasons the terrorist organisations understand very well.

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We’ve been so busy damning ourselves for years. We’ve done it all, and yet we don’t take credit for it.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

You beat him verbally. You beat him mentally, and then finally, you beat him physically. That’s the three ways to beat a man.

The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways.

As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there’s no use.

We don’t believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

My message to the Americans is the same as to everyone – that is to unite behind the science and to act on the science.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.