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.
CHARLES SCHUMERAs long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence.
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I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.
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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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People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
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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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I’m going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.
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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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When a nominee doesn’t get 60 votes, you shouldn’t change the rules, you should change the nominee.
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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 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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Certainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
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I want to attract the best people into teaching.
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Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
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All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.
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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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I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
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