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Will Durant was an American historian and writer.
You do not have to be a historian to see the same thing happening in America: our country is a shooting gallery, the disparity between the haves and have-nots is increasing, and we are a partisan, fractured, and bickering mess. Our internal turmoil is such that it is not the biggest stretch to think that America may well be tossed aside History’s scrap heap before too long. We deserve better than this – we deserve a county with a prosperous, secure future – but we are not currently demanding that right now. We are content with the status quo.

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George Washington was the first president of the United States.
Changing our country won’t be easy. It wasn’t during the Revolution, it wasn’t whe we eliminated slavery and it won’t be now. But just as perseverance and spirit served America well during the Revolution, so it will serve us well here. Perseverance and spirit in pursuing the America we want and deserve will again do wonders.

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John F. Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States.
Government is never easy, either. We voters have obligations to our country to be participating and demanding citizens, electing people who have the best interests of our country and not themselves at heart. We also have an obligation to ourselves: to produce a country that represents our very best, that is governed by those held accountable by voters.

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Frederick Douglass, born a slave, escaped and was a leading abolitionist. Having an entire country that is honest, truthful, and virtuous may seem like a tall order, but really it’s not because a country is nothing more than a reflection of her citizens. As an electorate, this means being honest with ourselves on Election Day and asking if our government is serving us well.

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Philippe Petit is a French tightrope walker.
What might seem impossible at the start can easily start seeming possible as you dive into something. The future of America looks us in the mirror every morning and as long as we continue to accept the status quo we will continue to get it. Completely remaking our government might seem impossible, but once you and me – we the people – take charge on Election Day, once we start working, the seemingly impossible will be there for the taking.

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd president of the United States.
A country is no different than an individual: both tend to get out of their existences life what they expect to get out of them. Right now, America expects partisan, substandard government and that is what we are getting. As long as we tolerate this, as long as we doubt a better America is there for the taking, the America we deserve will remain out of reach. Once we stop doubting, the America we want will follow.

Doris Kearns Goodwin is an American writer.
Impossibility has never hindered Americans. From shedding the British to putting man on the moon, we have never backed down from a challenge. And we shouldn’t here. While completely remaking our government is challenging, we certainly have the imagination to accomplish it.

Werner Von Braun was a German/American rocket scientist.
There was a time when America meant something to other nations, when it was as much an ideal as a place. That time has passed, though, with America now nothing more than a meddling bully. We are not meaning much to ourselves, either, as we continue to tolerate a country that is, among other things, a shooting gallery with a dysfunctional government. When we are ready for America to mean something again, to us and to the world, we’ll start taking charge on Election Day.

Penny Mourdant is the Leader of the British House of Commons.
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Cyril Neville is an American singer and musician.
We Americans cannot bite our tongues any longer: our country is being run into the ground by those we’ve elected and by continuing to ignore this – by continuing to bite our tongues at the ballot box – we are putting our country in jeopordy.

Excuses are common in America now as we assign blame for our government to incumbents, the media, lobbyists, and others when in reality we elected everyone there. While they all bear some of the blame for our country’s mess, most of the blame can be assigned to us: we elected everyone there

A hundred years from now all new people will look at this era of American history and either approve of the changes we made or wonder why we didn’t make any.

We will judge ourselves, too. Did we take charge and produce an America we could be proud of, or did we squander our chances? Our hope is for a government and country we can be proud of.

Gaylon Kent is the founder of Our American Way.
There are two basic propositions to Our American Way. The first is that our government is an unsustainable mess. The second is that this is reversible, that you and me – we the people – can make a difference.

Before we can make changes, we have to take the responsibility for making them. We must look ourselves in the mirror and decide that our country is worth the work that comes with being a participating and demanding voter. When we decide that, a new American century will begin.