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.
CHARLES SCHUMERLet 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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A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
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Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
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America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
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Our job is going to be to hold Donald Trump and the Republican majority accountable.
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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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But 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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But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.
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The export market is based, on high-paying jobs. I`ve seen statistics that show that people make over 88 a year generally benefit from this because these are export jobs.
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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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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’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
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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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No one believed [the 1986 amnesty for illegal aliens] was tough enough on illegal immigration, and it didn’t give enough flexibility on future legal immigration.
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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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