So then Who in the Hell Are We?

"This is not who we are."

         -- Secretary of State Clinton, also on troops posing with enemy body parts

Spying by the New York Police on Muslims in Newark, NJ, which the Newark Police Chief was alerted to, is "not who we are" 

           -- Newark Mayor Cory Booker

"I can tell you something all of you know already - that using pepper spray on peaceful protesters runs counter to our values. It does not reflect well on this university and it absolutely is not who we are."

            -- UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi, who ordered campus police to use force to clear peaceful student occupiers from the campus, leading to pepper spraying of students

Ripping families apart by deporting the undocumented parents of American-born children is "not who we are." 

             -- President Barack Obama

"This larger notion that the only thing we can do to restore prosperity is just dismantle government, refund everybody's money, and let everyone write their own rules, and tell everyone they're on their own -- that's not who we are." 

            -- President Barack Obama

"You can't say, well, we developed trade and the economic relations first and the disregard of human rights. That's not who we are. We are the United States of America." 

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