Famous quotes containing the words admission and/or status:
“The admission of the States of Wyoming and Idaho to the Union are events full of interest and congratulation, not only to the people of those States now happily endowed with a full participation in our privileges and responsibilities, but to all our people. Another belt of States stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)
“As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.”
—Clive James (b. 1939)