Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
CHARLES SCHUMERIf 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’d like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.
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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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A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
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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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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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The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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I want to attract the best people into teaching.
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Certainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
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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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But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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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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When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private.
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I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
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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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