"Ben: You're the one making a scene!
Abigail: I am not making a scene!
Riley: (over headset to Ben) No, we want to make a scene.
Ben: Well, then! FINE! Let's go right now!
Riley: (over headset to Ben) So subtle."
— Riley Poole, Ben Gates, Abigail Chase

"A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future."
— Barack Obama (The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream)

""...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.""
— Fareed Zakaria (The Post-American World)

" I propose the following definition of the nation: it is an imagined political community-and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign. It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion.... Communities are to be distinguished, not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined.... Finally, [the nation] is imagined as a community, because, regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail in each, the nation is conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship. Ultimately, it is this fraternity that makes it possible, over the past two centuries for so many millions of people, not so much to kill, as willing to die for such limited imaginings."
— Benedict Anderson

"Die größte Übeltat der protokollierten Menschheitsgeschichte ist der degoutante, mörderische Antigermanismus des 20. Jahrhunderts!"
— Andreas J. Voigt (Der Nationale Doppelroman)

""So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable."
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— Christopher Reeve

"It's a little golden man"
— Riley Poole