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• A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.

  Scott Cook

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poverty, American, Retirement

• Nearly one in ten Americans are still out of work. And still, the President and Congress are focused on ramming through their health-care bill, whatever it takes, whatever the cost.

  Scott Brown

  Topics in Work

  Tags in American

• When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press, who are even more vicious and cruel than the Americans. So I have been extremely guarded ever since.

  Claire Bloom

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Since, American, Vicious

• 58% of the American public are with us. We’re preaching to the choir, but the choir’s not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Public

• I’m just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, American

• I’ve always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, President, American

• If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Down, Together, American

• Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials.

  Ethan Suplee

  Topics in History, Uncategorized

  Tags in American

• The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.

  Sargent Shriver

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Peace, American

• Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people.

  Sarah Palin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Right, American

• Personal identity seems like it’s just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in ‘Breakfast At Tiffany’s’ to Jay Gatsby in ‘The Great Gatsby.’ It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you’re given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom, Personal, American

• We had, after all, no other recourse to protect ourselves, no other document, let’s say, than the Monroe Doctrine. So that could be cited as a cause for intervention if and when it might become necessary.

  E. Howard Hunt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Policy

• The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That’s your money.

  Robert Byrd

  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in Come, American

• The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in American, Contentious

• The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.

  Eamon de Valera

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in American

• We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come.

  Earl Blumenauer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Economic, Generations

• The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.

  Earl Browder

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Communists

• Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility.

  Chuck Hagel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Problems, Possible

• An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.

  Earl Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Judicial, System

• As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people – the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy.

  Christopher Van Hollen Jr.

  Topics in Health

  Tags in People, American, Affordable