I’m still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people’s lives better.
CHARLES SCHUMERGiving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
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If the Saudis were culpable, they should be held accountable. If they had nothing to do with 9/11, they have nothing to fear.
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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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All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.
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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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The public knows how many good things there are as part of the Affordable Care Act. The Republicans say they’re going to repeal. They don’t know what to replace it with.
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Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
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But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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Our job is going to be to hold Donald Trump and the Republican majority accountable.
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Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
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We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
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If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.
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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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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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I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
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When a nominee doesn’t get 60 votes, you shouldn’t change the rules, you should change the nominee.
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