“When they talk about legal status, that's code for second-class status.”

May 5, 2015
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016)

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Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer

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Walter F. Buckley (1922–2006) American sociologist

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Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

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Stephen Harper (1959) 22nd Prime Minister of Canada

National Post, Dec. 8 2000 p. A18.
2000

“It was the advent of the second plane, sharking in low over the Statue of Liberty: that was the defining moment.”

Martin Amis (1949) Welsh novelist

"Fear and loathing" (2001)
Context: It was the advent of the second plane, sharking in low over the Statue of Liberty: that was the defining moment. Until then, America thought she was witnessing nothing more serious than the worst aviation disaster in history; now she had a sense of the fantastic vehemence ranged against her.