“ America is a post-Christian nation only in the sense that we have built a tenement on the foundation of a palace. Ron Brackin
“ That America is an exceptional nation is unclear only to one who has not been taught its true history. It ceases to be exceptional only when its representative leaders cease to be exceptional. America… Ron Brackin
“ So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notion… Poul Anderson
“ [American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of… Zbigniew Brzezinski
