“You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.”
Ralph Kiner
“Chicago ain't no sissy town.”
Hinky Dink Kenna
“My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.”
Oprah Winfrey
“I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Americans have different ways of saying things. They say "elevator", we say "lift"... they say "President", we say "stupid psychopathic git.”
Alexai Sayle
“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.”
Winston Churchill
“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
Oscar Wilde
