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?
CHARLES SCHUMERNo 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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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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America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
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People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
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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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When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
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All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.
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The highest priority you can have is education.
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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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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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We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
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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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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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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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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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