I’m going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.
CHARLES SCHUMERThe greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.
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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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Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
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When a nominee doesn’t get 60 votes, you shouldn’t change the rules, you should change the nominee.
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I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
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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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A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
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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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I am deeply skeptical of trade deals in general.But the only way they can get a number of Democrats is by doing a strong real currency bill that goes after the worst of the trading partners, the one that`s stealing our high-end jobs.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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