Author and senior Manhattan Institute fellow Walter Olson, on a rash of Indian tribe land claims filed with an eye toward building gambling casinos: "The new wave of Indian land litigation began in the Northeast but has now spread around the country. Claims by the Miami Indians spill over large portions of Illinois and Indiana. The Eastern Shawnee want 4 million mislaid acres in Ohio. New York's Onondaga, Oneida and Cayuga have claimed the land under such cities as Syracuse and Binghamton. In Colorado the Cheyenne-Arapaho managed to top that with a filing for 27 million acres including Denver. Near Allentown, Pennsylvania, the Delaware Indians failed in a bid for a tract that includes Binney & Smith's famed Crayola factory."

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General Peter Schoomaker, the Army Chief of Staff, on efforts to cut the defense budget: "This is a world where you're going to have to play a full-court press all the time (and) it's going to get worse and worse. . . . When I think strategically about the future, I think we're just beginning to see the type of challenges we're going to face (in the war on terrorism), and this country . . . has never been as vulnerable."

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President Ronald Reagan, on "amnesty" for illegal aliens as he signed the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli Immigration Reform and Control Act: "We have consistently supported a legalization program which is both generous to the alien and fair to the countless thousands of people throughout the world who seek legally to come to America. The legalization provisions in this act will go far to improve the lives of a class of individuals who now must hide in the shadows, without access to many of the benefits of a free and open society. Very soon many of these men and women will be able to step into the sunlight and, ultimately, if they choose, they may become Americans."

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The chorus from" Nuestro Himno" ("Our Anthem"), a Spanish-language reworking of "The Star Spangled Banner": "Tell me! Does its starry beauty still wave above the land of the free, the sacred flag?"