"My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don't. I wish I'd known all this earlier. It would have saved me a lot of trouble."
"We [Americans] must never mistake disagreement between Americans on political or moral issues to be an indication of their level of patriotism. If you don't like what I say or don't agree with where I stand on certain issues, then good. I'm glad we're in America and don't have to oppress each other over it. We're not just a nation. We're not an ethnicity. We are a dream of justice that people have had for thousands of years."
"America gave me everything I have today. It gave me a second chance at life. A life I had previously mishandled so catastrophically. Americans taught me failure was only something you went through on the way to success, not just in the sense of career or wealth but as a person. I learned that failure is only failure, and that it can be useful, spun into a story that will make people laugh, and maybe every once in a while give a message of hope to others who might need some. For me, becoming an American was not a geographical or even political decision. It was a philosophical and emotional one, based on a belief in reason and fairness of opportunity... Scottish by birth, but American on purpose."
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