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"I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?"
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"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."
"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."
"As a South African I honestly cannot understand how people can't see South Africa as a unique nation, untied by ties of history, bonds of suffering, victory, struggles, hope - and in more ways than I ever before thought possible - blood."
"Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself."
"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."
"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."
"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."
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"People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich."
"I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends."
"The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others."
"Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity."
"The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers."
"In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays."
"Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt."
"Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer."
"Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is."
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