“Lady Liberty was originally designed to celebrate the end of slavery, not the arrival of immigrants. Ellis Island, the inspection station through which millions of immigrants passed, didn’t open until six years after the statue was unveiled in 1886.”— Gillian Brockell, washingtonpost.com
“Joe Buck: I'm brand, spankin' new in this here town and I was hopin' to get a look at the Statue of Liberty. Cass: It's up in Central Park, taking a leak. If you hurry, you can catch the supper show.”— Waldo Salt, Joe Buck, Jon Voight, imdb.com
“Tony Soprano: All due respect to New York, I don't think you should be tellin' my uncle how ta run things. Johnny Sack: You think I got the balls ta drive in from New York and tell your uncle how he should run his family? I shouldn't expect to see the Statue of Liberty again if I did that, huh?”— Frank Renzulli, Tony Soprano, James Gandolfini, imdb.com
“The United States government has always been proud of the welcome it has extended to good men of every nation, seeking freedom and homes and bread.”— John Muir, amazon.com
“I am for open immigration but that sign we have on the front of the Statue of Liberty, ‘Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses...,’ can't we just say, ‘Hey, the door's open, we'll take whoever you got’? Do we have to specify the wretched refuse? I mean, why don't we just say, ‘Give us th…”— Peter Mehlman, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com