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- Nobody I know is as committed to excellence as Donald Palmisano. He symbolizes everything that is good about our country. If Horatio… — Paul Galanti
- Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable... Anyone knowing… — Eleanor Roosevelt
- The fierce ambitions of Carver Dana Andrews, son of a Baptist preacher, might well have been imagined by Horatio Alger, Jr.-- or… — Unknown Author
- The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health… — Waverley Root
- [democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam… — David Frum
- Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American… — Manny Farber
- I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy.… — Zora Neale Hurston
- I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident. — Hunter S. Thompson
- Richard M. Nixon honestly believed in his bones that an organized conspiracy of liberal media insiders had literally been plotting against him… — Rick Perlstein