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• I have been privileged to have the opportunity to work with many of African American fraternal and social organizations that are active in my congressional district. They all do important work that makes a tangible difference to the quality of life in our community.

  Christopher Van Hollen Jr.

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• The confusing thing, I thought, was that most of America already knew that we were overly reliant on oil, especially on foreign oil. But it was news that this administration had begun to at least acknowledge that problem.

  Christopher Van Hollen Jr.

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• Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.

  Samuel P Huntington

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• We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.

  Samuel P Huntington

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• It is a culture voice, but it is a very American culture voice, and I am very used to English culture voice. So I had to work like hell to flatten those R’s.

  Christopher Plummer

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• I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.

  Ted Shawn

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• It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

  Christopher Lasch

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  Tags in American, Attempt

• The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.

  Ted Olson

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• It doesn’t serve an American interest. It really doesn’t really serve Israeli interests – it serves the interests of the political party that’s getting the votes of the settlers on the West Bank.

  Christopher John Matthews

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• If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

  Christopher James Hampton

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• You know, I think what the American people want more than anything else right now is someone who’s just going to look them in the eye and tell them the truth, even some truths that they don’t like. And – but they have to believe the person’s speaking from their heart and are authentic.

  Christopher James Christie

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• All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.

  Christopher Dodd

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• American workers are first rate.

  Christopher Dodd

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• American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.

  Christopher Dawson

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• The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.

  Talib Kweli

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• Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act.

  Christopher Dawson

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• I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.

  Ed Gillespie

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• I’m an American first, and I think that’s how most people are.

  Ed Gillespie

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• All Americans need a sense of place. That’s what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.

  Ed McMahon

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• While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker’s wages remain stagnant.

  Ed Pastor

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