“There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.”
Part 4, Chapter 8 (p. 61)
Fiction, The Female Man (1975)
“There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.”
Part 4, Chapter 8 (p. 61)
Fiction, The Female Man (1975)
2000s, 2009, Farewell speech to the nation (January 2009)
Context: It has been the privilege of a lifetime to serve as your President. There have been good days and tough days. But every day I have been inspired by the greatness of our country and uplifted by the goodness of our people. I have been blessed to represent this Nation we love. And I will always be honored to carry a title that means more to me than any other: citizen of the United States of America, and so, my fellow Americans, for the final time: Good night. May God bless this house and our next President. And may God bless you and our wonderful country.
“Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”
Book VIII, Chapter 4.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)
2014, Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative Town Hall Speech (November 2014)
2016, DNC Address (July 2016)
Context: You know, nothing truly prepares you for the demands of the Oval Office. You can read about it. You can study it. But until you’ve sat at that desk, you don’t know what it’s like to manage a global crisis, or send young people to war. But Hillary has been in the room; she’s been part of those decisions. She knows what’s at stake in the decisions our government makes — what’s at stake for the working family, for the senior citizen, or the small business owner, for the soldier, for the veteran. And even in the midst of crisis, she listens to people, and she keeps her cool, and she treats everybody with respect. And no matter how daunting the odds, no matter how much people try to knock her down, she never, ever quits.
That is the Hillary I know. That’s the Hillary I’ve come to admire. And that’s why I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman — not me, not Bill, nobody — more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.
“I am at heart more of a United-States-man than an Englishman.”
Letter to Andrew Jackson (14 June 1830), quoted in Correspondence of Andrew Jackson, Volume 4, ed. David Maydole Matteson (1929), p. 146