When a nominee doesn’t get 60 votes, you shouldn’t change the rules, you should change the nominee.
CHARLES SCHUMERI 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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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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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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Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
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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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The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.
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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 don’t think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It’s a waste of resources.
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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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But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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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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Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
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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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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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When you lose an election, you don’t blink, you don’t turn away. You look it right in the eye and say, why did we lose?
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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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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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Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people’s rights away.
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As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence.
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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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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 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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All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.
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We’re going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We’re going to beat guns into submission!
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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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Certainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
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If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.
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