The Democratic Party was always there on crime, but in the past we let the ideologues on the left dominate. The Republicans may still let the ideologues on the right dominate.
CHARLES SCHUMERBut 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’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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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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So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it’s a better education overall.
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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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All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.
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Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
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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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I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
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I’m still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people’s lives better.
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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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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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What we are going to do as Democrats is put together a really strong platform that focuses on jobs and economic issues.
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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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The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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