This is government’s primary function – to keep us safe – and when large percentages in America don’t feel safe, they start asking: What am I paying my taxes for? What is government all about?
CHARLES SCHUMERAs long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence.
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But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don’t starve. Those are values, too.
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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’d like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.
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The Democratic Party was always there on crime, but in the past we let the ideologues on the left dominate. The Republicans may still let the ideologues on the right dominate.
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So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it’s a better education overall.
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The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.
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A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
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An 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 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.
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Our job is going to be to hold Donald Trump and the Republican majority accountable.
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People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
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When you run for president you have certain obligations. One of them would be to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.
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America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
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We’re here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true.
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