"Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too." ― Studs Terkel Topic(s): Religion More From Studs Terkel "People are ready to say, ‘Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.’ We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations." "I’m not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each other. I think people are ready for something, but there is no leadership to offer it to them. People are ready to say, ‘Yes, we are part of a world.’" "I’ve always felt, in all my books, that there’s a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence – providing they have the facts, providing they have the information." More In Religion "Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work."― Orison Swett Marden "I don’t care what the religion is called; as far as I’m concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them."― Charley Pride "In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil."― Anna Jameson