Banana Republic Sayings

#1. Saeed quickly found employment at a Banana Republic, where he would sell to urban sophisticates the black turtleneck of the season, in a shop whose name was synonymous with colonial exploitation and the rapacious ruin of the third world.

Kiran Desai

#2. I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic ... That to me was funny.

Christopher Meloni

#3. In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably.

George Ayittey

#4. Obama might think of himself as one, but he is not a dictator. We are not a banana republic yet. This is not an authoritarian form of government. This is a constitutional republic, and the president doesn't allow or disallow. The president can't buy or purchase.

Rush Limbaugh

#5. We are well on our way to becoming a banana republic in every respect except, of course, that we don't grow bananas.

Burt Prelutsky

#6. If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically done for. We will end up being a third rate economy ... a banana republic.

Paul Keating

#7. This is the story of two men who met in a banana republic. One of them never did anything dishonest in his life except for one crazy minute. The other never did anything honest in his life except for one crazy minute.

Preston Sturges

#8. Anslinger's reefer madness did not caution even the seeds of efficient, intelligent, ruthless action ... The same goes for Hoover, sniveling Nixon, the whole miserable, wretchedly evil lot of them ... not a man among them who could have pulled off a successful coup in a banana republic.

William S. Burroughs

#9. British Columbia has been described as a banana republic, only with bigger bananas,

John Vaillant

#10. Generally it's not a good idea to wear Banana Republic - type khaki journalist clothes in a war zone. You might look too much like something that's supposed to be shot, such as a journalist.

P. J. O'Rourke

#11. This is America, not a banana republic.

Vincent Bugliosi

#12. I used to work for a management consulting company, so I dressed differently - business casual, probably a lot of things from Banana Republic. My wardrobe now is definitely more expensive, but I always dress for the occasion.

John Legend

#13. Witnessing Panama's overnight transition from banana republic to middle-class retirement haven is like watching the Univision version of Extreme Makeover: it feels so tacky but you can't change channels because you just have to find out what happens next.

Andrew Evans

#14. Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.

Elliott Abrams

#15. Just existing is where a lot of living happens.

Fred Gallagher

#16. I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.

C.S. Forester

#17. Daniel snorted. "You are such a cynic."
"You're such a romantic."
"Yeah. Isn't diversity grand?

Kaje Harper

#18. It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require.

Dee Hock

#19. Some women barter their bodies like whores with wedding bands. Some use sex like a sword. But some women can touch a man and heal like Jesus.

Paula Wall

#20. Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name.

Thomas Campbell

#21. Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.

P. J. O'Rourke

#22. There are proven ways to win the loyalty of tough, strong, ferocious men: play on the certain knowledge of their superiority, the mystique of secret covenant, the esprit of shared suffering.

Frank Herbert

#23. I will not be fooled again. The next cute bunny limping my way will get it!

L.T. Suzuki

#24. The aliens coming and wiping our electricity and having technical power over us ... we don't know what's out there. It something that seems so fictional, but it's something that's possible.

Seychelle Gabriel

#25. Smoke 'em if you got 'em.

Tre Cool

#26. When you look at what I've done here, you see a consistent theme of reforms which is not driven by any dogma from across the water, but a radical agenda to make sure Northern Ireland's people enjoy equal opportunities, driven by the values of social justice.

Peter Hain