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 SCHUMERThe greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.
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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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The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.
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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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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.
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There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision.
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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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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 today’s competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
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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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The public knows how many good things there are as part of the Affordable Care Act. The Republicans say they’re going to repeal. They don’t know what to replace it with.
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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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Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
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The only way we’re gonna work with Donald Trump is if he moves completely in our direction and abandons his Republican colleagues.
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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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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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Unfortunately, the administration’s plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
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You do have to change things as warfare changes.
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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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When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
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The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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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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When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
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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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I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.
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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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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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