QotD

"The United States has a long history of being a place of refuge and asylum for persecuted people. There's nothing new about this. This is the tradition of the United States."
-- Gerry Weiss, one of the two selectmen supporting a resolution urging the Congress to release cleared Guantanamo Bay detainees into the United States and calling for the town of Amherst to welcome those detainees into the community.