I support the death penalty for the kingpin, the guy at the top, but I don’t think you should throw a drug offender in jail for five years, and let a mugger out after a year.
CHARLES SCHUMERAn economic message, an economic platform unites the factory worker in Scranton, the young woman in Los Angeles struggling to pay her college debt and the single mom in Buffalo who’s on minimum wage.
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I’m not sure we will have every single Democrat, but we want a large number of Republicans to be able to vote for this bill because we think that will encourage the House not only to move forward but to pass a bill.
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I made education the highest priority of my campaign – actually education and jobs – and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.
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Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
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What I want to do first with education is my student loan idea. Basically, if you go into teaching and teach for five years, your student loans should be forgiven. It doesn’t cost that much.
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Certainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
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When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private.
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Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people’s rights away.
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I’m going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.
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You do have to change things as warfare changes.
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The only way we’re gonna work with Donald Trump is if he moves completely in our direction and abandons his Republican colleagues.
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Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
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The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.
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In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.
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Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.
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I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.
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