Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because people came from someplace else.
No offense to Iceland, but Latin America is where the fugitive leaker Edward Snowden should settle.
If a white man had land, and some one should swindle him, that man would try to get it back, and you would not blame him.
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.
Our country was founded on immigration. We are all occupying Native American land here. At what point do we say 'It's our land, and nobody else can come here.'
But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they've been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know, the fact that it's come to the U.S. like this is so sad, and yet you know, what can you do? It's here.
I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
Australia and Canada were settled by adventurers, they had to break new ground. I think that is indelibly etched on our cultural spirit.
And it was from Boston that one in every six American families began their journey into the land of the free.