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 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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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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I’m still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people’s lives better.
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Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
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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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Candidates With Deeply Held Christian Beliefs Are Unfit and Disqualified From Serving As A Federal Judge.
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The highest priority you can have is education.
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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 the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
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If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.
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I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.
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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 a nominee doesn’t get 60 votes, you shouldn’t change the rules, you should change the nominee.
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The currency bill we have would finally do something for China`s rapacious policies.
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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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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 want to attract the best people into teaching.
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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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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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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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You do have to change things as warfare changes.
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We’re here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true.
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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 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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In today’s competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
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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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