“What would the world be without America? It would be a dull and dinky planet, indeed.”— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com
“Since this nation came to be, almost every important invention under creation happened here, because America is the coolest invention of all.”— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com
“This country has been bound for glory or the ditch, which is really the nature of all popular culture, of the Hollywood blockbuster, of the great American Dream.”— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com
“This country was always cool. Everything we do here is cooler than everything they do everywhere else, and so it will ever be.”— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com
“I often wonder if the Founding Fathers sat down in the pub over steins of ale, or at a dining room table over a hardy supper, and said to each other, Let’s start a country.”— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com
“The defining characteristic of America is our fanaticism: We dream big, we think large, we create grandeur. We invented Hollywood, rock ’n’ roll, blue jeans, the Gold Rush, cable TV with thousands of channels, a military that is larger than those of the next ten combined, the shopping mall, and a st…”— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com
“I don’t think Americans are ready, psychologically, for how fast China is gong to overtake us as a world power on the current course.”— Matthew Yglesias, twitter.com
“We shouldn't think we can. How do we show American exceptionalism? By example. It's the same as being a good father. By exemplifying our tenets and our beliefs, freedom and choice and not closing borders and being protectionists.”— Brad Pitt, gq.com
“One cannot, at once, claim to be superhuman and then plead mortal error. I propose to take our countrymen’s claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard.”— Ta-Nehisi Coates, amazon.com