Voter, citizen of Cook County IL., family history in the United States dating back to 1740, and believe in the following:
"No taxation without representation" Jonathan Mayhew
"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best." Voltaire
"Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention without politics to nominate a leader who’s out in front of nobody? … Maybe our national mindlessness is the very thing that keeps us from turning into one of those smelly European countries full of pseudo-reds and crypto-fascists and greens who dress like forest elves." P. J. O’Rourke
"Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea." John Gunther
"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life." Theodore Roosevelt
"Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved." Alexis de Tocqueville
"We need a new spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together, or the American Dream will continue to wither. Our destiny is bound up with the destiny of every other American." Bill Clinton
"Even the most educated Americans tend to dislike polysyllabic, Latinate diction, just as they shun elaborate, rococo sentences, embellished with subordinate clauses, of which this is an example. They like their sentences simple. Like that. The American style is more democratic. Professors here talk in a language that plumbers and postmen can understand." Jonathan Freedland
"America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses." Woodrow Wilson