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On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.

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

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.

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?

Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.

Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people.

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.

Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather, they look to their portfolios.

In addition to serving overseas, the Peace Corps' Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans.

When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s.

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

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

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.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

The most extreme individuals and factions in Islamic countries are now more motivated than ever to kill Americans, and the number of potential terrorists has greatly expanded.