When bbc correspondent Justin Webb left america his quotes have always stuck in my head. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/817644

When bbc correspondent Justin Webb left america his quotes have always stuck in my head. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8176448.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspon... "There is something about the carelessness of America that gives space for greatness." "If you do not like your life and you have drive and luck, you can change it because - being American - you believe you can change it." "But if Sonia Sotomayor is to make it big, there must be something creating the drive, and part of that something is the poverty of the alternative, the discomfort of the ordinary lives that most Americans endure and the freedom that Americans have to go to hell if that is the decision they take. This is the atmosphere in which Nobel Prize winners are nurtured. A nation which will one day mass produce a cure for type one diabetes, could not, would not, save little Kara Neumann from the bovine idiocy of her religious parents."