Thomas Rose

“America is big enough to accommodate all their dreams.”
― Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

“And I thought, y’know, I mean…this is crazy. I mean, the only thing that determines what country you belong to is where you happened to be born? What is a country, anyway? It’s not, y’know, “purple mountain’s majesty” or “fruited plains,” whatever the hell that means. I mean, America isn’t a place, it’s an ideal. It could happen in the Sahara Desert and still be America. For that matter, I’m the child of immigrants. My father’s lived and worked in this country for the past three decades. And he’s somehow more or less American than some redneck who uses Osama bin Laden for toilet paper? How the hell do you measure something like that?”
― Phillip Andrew Bennett Low, Indecision Now! A Libertarian Rage

“Thank God for immigrants. They're the only ones who have any personality left. They still allow themselves emotions, judgments, and all those qualities that we are "evolving" past. I don't know what they're saying, but I can tell they're speaking honestly.”
― Colin Quinn, The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America

“The 1924 Immigration Restriction Act was the primary tool used by FDR to keep Jewish refugees from reaching US shores.”
― A.E. Samaan, H.H. Laughlin: American Scientist, American Progressive, Nazi Collaborator