“[When the government says] 'everybody gets equal pay,' you get away from the whole American Dream.”
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
An unequal answer about equal pay (19 November 2015)
2010s, 2015
“This is love, moving to where the money is, and all the while a volcano or an ex-girlfriend might blow the whole thing to hell, as the Americans say. As everybody says.”
— Daniel Handler, book Adverbs
Adverbs (2006), Arguably
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