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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?

Charles Schumer

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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Need Pay People Starve
What we are going to do as Democrats is put together a really strong platform that focuses on jobs and economic issues.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Democracy Economics Focus Issues Job Platform Strong Togetherness
In today’s competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
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Competition Death Economics Stand
But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Class Democracy Eyes Level Myself Thinking
Certainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Brief Democracy Government Policy President
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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Accountability Culprit Fear Police
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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Care Class Focus People
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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Economics Message Money Pay Struggle Woman Young
Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
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Action Greatness Mistake
If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.
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Bold Message Strong Unity Yourself
The only way we’re gonna work with Donald Trump is if he moves completely in our direction and abandons his Republican colleagues.
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Abandonment Complete Direction Himself Move Work
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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Defense Live Ourselves Protection Remember Respect Time
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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We’re here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true.
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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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Call Focus Need People Politics
A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
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Comment Infrastructure Money War

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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