We are a people in a quandary about the present We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community. (Barbara Jordan) The vice presidency is the sand trap of American politics. It’s near the prize, and designed to be limiting. (Howard Fineman) People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power. (Bill Clinton)

4. America is not like a blanket—one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt—many patches, many sizes, and woven and held together by a common thread. (Jesse Jackson) 1. Repetition and parallelism; 2. metaphor; 3. antithesis; 4. simile, repetition, parallelism