Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.
The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom.
In America, we take care of each other, we support one another, and we look out for our neighbors.
Friendship and money: oil and water.
The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.
Let me be very clear: my friendship with my friends ends where the interest of the country begins.
The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.
We must immediately find the way to come and say to the U.S., 'Despite the difficult differences of opinion between us, there are no closer friends, and no better allies than you to us, and we to you.'
For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there.