I want to attract the best people into teaching.
CHARLES SCHUMERCertainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
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People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
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There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision.
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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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If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.
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Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
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Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.
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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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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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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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I’m going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.
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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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The highest priority you can have is education.
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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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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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Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
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If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.
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I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
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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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Our job is going to be to hold Donald Trump and the Republican majority accountable.
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In today’s competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
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It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.
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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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I think there’s going to be a lot of Americans who are really willing to be much more active than they were before, because they’re worried about where Trump is headed.
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We’re going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We’re going to beat guns into submission!
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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?
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