I don’t think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It’s a waste of resources.
CHARLES SCHUMERBigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.
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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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The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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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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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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What I want to do first with education is my student loan idea. Basically, if you go into teaching and teach for five years, your student loans should be forgiven. It doesn’t cost that much.
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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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Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
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I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
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When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
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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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I’m going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.
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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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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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Democrats don’t relate to middle-class people.
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Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
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