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• The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.

  Richard Neal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Tax, Avoid

• Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.

  Richard Neal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Trade, Workers

• The American spirit wears no political label. In service to others and yes, in sacrifice for our country, there are no Republicans; there are no Democrats; there are only Americans.

  John Kerry

  Topics in America, Country, Politics, Sacrifice, Service

  Tags in Democrats, Republicans, Patriotism, Spirit, American

• Americans who may be going to the largest embassy we’ve ever had.

  Richard Lugar

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in May, Ever, American

• The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

  Eric Allin Cornell

  Topics in Youth

  Tags in American, Culture

• American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn’t be.

  Eric Alterman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Journalists

• Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.

  Eric Alterman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Government, Situation

• Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?

  Wally Herger

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Peoples

• One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama’s impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.

  Eric Alterman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Presidential, Nominations

• Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.

  Eric Alterman

  Topics in Children

  Tags in American

• The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics – just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.

  Eric Alterman

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Politicians, American

• To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.

  Eric Alterman

  Topics in Money

  Tags in American, Newspaper

• Americans are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white.

  Richard Kerry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Affair

• February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II.

  Xavier Becerra

  Topics in Country

  Tags in War, American, Japanese

• African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.

  Xavier Becerra

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Population, American

• As a regent, I hope to bring that important perspective of a typical family visitor in combination with my background as a Member of Congress and a proponent of the Smithsonian’s efforts to reach all Americans.

  Xavier Becerra

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Regret, American, Important, Quality

• According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.

  Xavier Becerra

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  Tags in Heart, American

• Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

  Xavier Becerra

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Community

• The plan was that I was going to retire and take a job with the American Federation, but Nottingham Forest offered me a contract and there was interest from West Ham and another Premiership club.

  Richard Gough

  Topics in Job

  Tags in American

• Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Law, American