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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Unfortunately, the administration’s plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
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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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But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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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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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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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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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.
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Democrats don’t relate to middle-class people.
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When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
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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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The highest priority you can have is education.
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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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We’re here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true.
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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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If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.
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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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Our job is going to be to hold Donald Trump and the Republican majority accountable.
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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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Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.
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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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I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
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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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Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
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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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In today’s competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
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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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