“America is a land where a citizen will cross the ocean to fight for democracy - and wont cross the street to vote in a national election.”

“A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.”

“Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.”

“By the time I had finished my coffee and returned to the streets, the rain had temporarily abated, but the streets were full of vast puddles where the drains where unable to cope with the volume of water. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you would think that if one nation ought by now to have mastered the science of drainage, Britain would be it.”

“Silena BeauregardShe betrayed them all, thats what it seemedBut she never knew she was.Luke made a promise, that she was saving livesShe never knew that she wasn't saving,But killingSome knew, that something was about to happenA trick that ends in deathSome may have thought: Foolish Aphrodite girl. But,In the end she died braveIn the end she showed her treachourous secretIn the end she saw CharlieIn the end she was a hero”

“America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.”

“But that’s the wonderful thing about foreign travel, suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most basic sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross the street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.”