"We can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities."
— Winston S. Churchill

"Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a multitude of factors: extreme freedom of thought, an emphasis on independent thinking, a steady immigration of new minds, a risk-taking culture with no stigma attached to trying and failing, a noncorrupt bureaucracy, and financial markets and a venture capital system that are unrivaled at taking new ideas and turning them into global products."
— Thomas L. Friedman

"Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.
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— Dennis Kucinich

""America's health care system is neither
healthy, caring, nor a system.""
— Walter Cronkite

"I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us."
— Luis Valdez (Mummified Deer And Other Plays)