I launched Imperia at the Statue of Liberty because I wanted to use something symbolic. I like American society because it always wants to do something new and better.

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.

I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

As I looked up at the Statue of Liberty, I thought at that time, 'What a wonderful country.'