Jay, the cuckoo clock quote is from Orson Welles THE THIRD MAN.

“In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed — they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”

Note: most people would rather have lived in Switzerland than under the Borgias. More Aristo posturing.