Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
CHARLES SCHUMERSoft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
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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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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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When a nominee doesn’t get 60 votes, you shouldn’t change the rules, you should change the nominee.
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I’m still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people’s lives better.
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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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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’m going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.
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You do have to change things as warfare changes.
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I want to attract the best people into teaching.
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Our job is going to be to hold Donald Trump and the Republican majority accountable.
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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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We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
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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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The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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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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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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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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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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In today’s competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
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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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Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
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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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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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If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.
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The highest priority you can have is education.
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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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