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.
CHARLES SCHUMERCertainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
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Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
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I’m still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people’s lives better.
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I want to attract the best people into teaching.
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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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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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You do have to change things as warfare changes.
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Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11.
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In today’s competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
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No one believed [the 1986 amnesty for illegal aliens] was tough enough on illegal immigration, and it didn’t give enough flexibility on future legal immigration.
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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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Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can’t. After all, Mitt Romney’s idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there.
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We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
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I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
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People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
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Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
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