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• Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.

  Bill Pascrell

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  Tags in American, Class

• Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in American

• If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it’s clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again.

  Bill O'Reilly

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• Romney has to convince the American public that they need to do something they’re not usually inclined to do – replace a sitting president with a challenger. And unlike in 1980 and 1992, when the public was persuaded to do just that, the incumbent president has not been weakened by a primary opponent.

  Bill Kristol

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  Tags in American, Convince

• While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.

  Frank Rich

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• We are also looking to Canada as we continue to integrate the North American energy market.

  Paul Cellucci

  Topics in America

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• Preserving parks and open spaces is a winner because it doesn’t need to be explained to everyday Americans.

  Frank Luntz

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  Tags in American, Explained, Winner

• We as Americans assume that big companies are bad, and big power companies are even worse.

  Frank Luntz

  Topics in Power

  Tags in American, Assume

• There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That’s not what the American people want to hear.

  Frank Luntz

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  Tags in Believe, Disappointment, American

• We as Americans and as humans have very selective hearing and very selective memory. We only hear what we want to hear and disregard the rest.

  Frank Luntz

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  Tags in American, Human, Disregard

• With or without a Social Security fix, Americans don’t have enough assets to retire on. There has to be a much larger debate.

  Frank Keating

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  Tags in American, Social, Enough

• You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, ‘That man is a Red, that man is a Communist!’ You never hear a real American talk like that.

  Frank Hague

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  Tags in Constitutional, American

• If the area were on or near the U.S. continental shelf, such data could well provide an enemy with strategically invaluable insights into undersea access routes that could be used to attack some of the millions of Americans who live on or near our coasts.

  Frank Gaffney

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  Tags in American, Attack, Invaluable

• The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations’ dues to sustain the UN’s operations.

  Frank Gaffney

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  Tags in American, Nations, Member

• Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security, and for bringing Ted Turner along on some sensible approaches to enhancing it.

  Frank Gaffney

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• Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant Finance. Indeed, this country’s taxpayers now own the largest purveyor of sharia-compliant insurance products in the world: AIG.

  Frank Gaffney

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  Tags in American, Government

• Unbeknownst to most American investors, significant portions of their public pension, mutual fund, life insurance and private portfolios are comprised of stocks of privately held companies that partner with state sponsors of terror.

  Frank Gaffney

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  Tags in American, Public, Terror

• Unfortunately, the cyber threat to ‘the grid’ is only one means of eviscerating the soft underbelly of American society. Another which has been getting increasing attention could be delivered via the kind of nuclear-armed ballistic missile that Iran and North Korea have been developing: a strategic electro-magnetic pulse attack.

  Frank Gaffney

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  Tags in American, Attention, Developing

• In examining the CIA’s past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public.

  Frank Forrester Church III

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  Tags in American, Public, Media

• A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

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  Tags in Hollywood, American