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• It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act.

  Russ Carnahan

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  Tags in American, Act

• The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.

  Fredric Jameson

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  Tags in Popular, American, Traditional

• Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism – in that sense, playing the game of US interests – by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.

  Fredric Jameson

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  Tags in Interests, American, Playing

• In most of the European countries – France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism – the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements.

  Fredric Jameson

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  Tags in American, National, Forced

• And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination – of local cultural industries closed down by American rivals.

  Fredric Jameson

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  Tags in Economic, Industries, American

• I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock ‘n’ roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.

  Etta James

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  Tags in American, Music, Culture

• The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing.

  Francis Parker Yockey

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  Tags in American, Nothing

• No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America’s youth.

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Topics in Youth

  Tags in Deceived, American

• Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes.

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Topics in Youth

  Tags in Ideas, American

• 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

• I’ve been wanting to sing for a long time. I’ve been singing all my life, and I’ve tried different record companies, but it seemed like – it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, ‘I’m gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.’

  Fantasia Barrino

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  Tags in Different, American, Struggle

• Whether it’s people walking off ‘The View’ when Bill O’Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion, over-reaching political correctness is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression.

  Eric Ivan Cantor

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  Tags in American, Political, Freedoms

• What this bill says is it reiterates again the deadline, and that the Senate should act before the deadline, and that’s what the American people are expecting.

  Eric Ivan Cantor

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  Tags in People, American, Expecting

• We’ve had Town Hall meetings, we’ve witnessed election after election, in which the American people have taken a position on the President’s health care bill. And the bottom line is the people don’t like this bill. They don’t want it.

  Eric Ivan Cantor

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  Tags in People, Healthcare, President, American

• The American people elected us here to cut spending so we can create an environment for jobs in America. The House has acted. We have demonstrated that we want to see spending, discretionary spending, brought down to levels of 2008. We’ve seen no counteraction. We have seen no position that has been expressed by the other side at all.

  Eric Ivan Cantor

  Topics in Job

  Tags in American, People

• I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care.

  Eric Ivan Cantor

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  Tags in People, American, Healthcare

• Again, the American people expect us to do what they are doing. It’s tightening the belt, it’s learning how to do more with less. That’s a reality today, and we’ve got to do that in order to get the private sector growing.

  Eric Ivan Cantor

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  Tags in People, American, Reality

• When you talk about evangelicals, don’t forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans – well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical – will probably vote Democratic.

  Tony Campolo

  Topics in Country, Politics

  Tags in American

• Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to s*x education and understanding their bodies.

  Sue Johanson

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  Tags in American, Canada

• 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