People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
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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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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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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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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Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
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When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
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Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
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The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
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I feel very strongly that we need to change the way we do trade because it has been one of the major factors that lead to 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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Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments – the American people really don’t care.
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But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don’t because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere.
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If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.
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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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Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
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