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• It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.

  Bill Pascrell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Suffering, American

• House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?

  Adam Pascal

  Topics in Family, Leadership

  Tags in American

• A number of Americans were used, most often unwillingly, by North Korea to arm spies with English-speaking skills so they could target American interests in South Korea and beyond.

  Robert Jenkins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American

• What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.A

  Ben Nelson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American

• For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or become injured may not be an option because of the absence of health insurance.

  Ben Nelson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American

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

  Richard Neal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Trade, Workers

• 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

• Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda.

  Richard Neal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Over, American, Tax

• Let me announce this to the American people tonight one of the best things about this debate, as a Democrat from Massachusetts, I have proposed eliminating, getting rid of the alternative minimum tax.

  Richard Neal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Best, American, Getting

• I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I’ve lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade.

  Wolfman Jack

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Enough, Respectable, American

• The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Topics in Genius

  Tags in American, Possibility

• Another term for preventive war is aggressive war – starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

  Ron Paul

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War, American

• Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It’s the most theatrically corrupt.

  Studs Terkel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Corrupt

• I’m tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

  Susan Sarandon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tired, American

• What we are doing is satisfying the American public. That’s our job. I always say we have to give most of the people what they want most of the time. That’s what they expect from us.

  William S. Paley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, American, Satisfying

• I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.

  William E. Simon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Relationship, American

• I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.

  Carl Paladino

  Topics in Dream, Uncategorized

  Tags in American, dream

• The biggest risk I’ve ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn’t going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

  Adam Lambert

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, American

• 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

  Topics in Family

  Tags in American, Attempt

• We Americans entered a new phase in our history – the era of integration – in 1954.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Topics in History

  Tags in American, Integration