We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
CHARLES SCHUMERI 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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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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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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People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
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Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that’s not what any of us should want from our judges.
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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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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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In today’s competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
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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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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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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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When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
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I’m not sure we will have every single Democrat, but we want a large number of Republicans to be able to vote for this bill because we think that will encourage the House not only to move forward but to pass a bill.
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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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All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.
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