"There is an undercurrent in American politics that goes way back—this xenophobic fear of the other. In Roosevelt’s day, that fear of the other was communism or Jews. There was this whole cottage industry that was trying to prove Roosevelt was Jewish and that he was part of an international Jewish conspiracy to take over America. Right now we’re anti-immigrant or anti-Muslim; back then it was anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish. Whenever that comes to the surface, it seems to usher in these kinds of movements. Whenever there is a fear that somebody is leading us astray and away from capitalism and more into socialism, there is the eruption, it seems, of this kind of reactionary response."
— Sally Denton, author of The Plots Against the President: FDR, a Nation in Crisis, and the Rise of the American Right — Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Those Who Hated Him, by Tierney Sneed
"We can either settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do really well, while a growing number of Americans barely get by, or we can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, and everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules. What’s at stake are not Democratic values or Republican values, but American values. We have to reclaim them."
— President Barack Obama — State of the Union Speech Focuses on Middle Class Success: In election year speech, Obama outlines White House vision for creating jobs and to ‘reclaim American values’ — by Kenneth T. Walsh
"According to the results of a study in which researchers examined pain scores from tens of thousands of patients in the United States, women experience more intense pain than men."
— Medical record analysis reveals that pain scores are higher among females for a wide range of diseases
"He wanted an open marriage and I refused."
— In excerpts the network released before the broadcast, Marianne Gingrich said that when she learned of Gingrich’s affair with Callista Bisek, a congressional staffer, he asked his wife to share him.
"One in three American adults and one in six American children are obese, new government reports show. That’s the bad news. The good news is that over the past 12 years, those rates have remained roughly the same."
— Americans Aren’t Getting Any Skinnier. But, the good news is the overall rate of obesity is stabilizing, researchers report
