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• We have so many kids in America to be adopted, but it’s expensive. All these families that want children aren’t able to because of the financial aspect, and that, to me, is just the most disgusting thing ever.

  Cindy Margolis

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Ever, American

• How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?

  Constance Baker Motley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Special, American

• My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Distance

• The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fact, American, Considered

• We Americans entered a new phase in our history – the era of integration – in 1954.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Topics in History

  Tags in American, Integration

• The Native American side was tragic. It’s just unbelievable what has happened to them.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American

• On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

  Eleanor Holmes Norton

  Topics in Family, Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, American, Treatment

• House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?

  Adam Pascal

  Topics in Family, Leadership

  Tags in American

• I don’t think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an American president and allies who are obligated to worry about the safety and security of our countries, cannot take the word of this dictator, who lies, pathologically lies.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Worry, Safety

• Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn’t in their neighborhood.

  Conan O'Brien

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Republicans, American, Neighborhood

• The American economy has always been the innovator in the world, and we’re starting to see some tremendous increases in innovation, especially in the clean energy sector.

  Tim Kaine

  Topics in Economy

  Tags in American

• And almost half of American oil consumption is for motor vehicles.

  Tim Holden

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Consumption, American

• Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It’s just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it’s also an affirmation of faith in their country.

  Simon Hoggart

  Topics in Love

  Tags in American

• If we had to choose one American Idol to go out to dinner with, it would be Fantasia. There are no airs and graces about her… I like her.

  Simon Cowell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Idol

• It’s hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.

  David Mamet

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hard, American, Generation

• I’m entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I’m an American.

  David Mamet

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Political, Vote, American

• No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American

• I’ve done quite a few big American films.

  John Malkovich

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Done, Big, American

• Osama bin Laden’s own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants.

  Cofer Black

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Declared

• The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Explorer, Discovery