Harriet Hageman: “I have every expectation that that is true. And I bet that it is beautiful.”

We must stop pretending that America is just an idea, or that we have no shared culture worth fighting for.

I hope that by focusing on America’s 250th anniversary – and looking back over that history with honesty and accuracy — we will reverse these declines.

I am, in fact, optimistic that those festivities we’ve already enjoyed are currently inspiring a new sense of purpose in our national identity.

They're very backwards people. I kind of look at them like flat-Earthers. They're very backwards people in the way that they approach things.