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.
CHARLES SCHUMERWe need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don’t starve. Those are values, too.
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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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Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
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Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can’t. After all, Mitt Romney’s idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there.
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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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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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Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people’s rights away.
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We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don’t starve. Those are values, too.
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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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If the Saudis were culpable, they should be held accountable. If they had nothing to do with 9/11, they have nothing to fear.
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A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
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You do have to change things as warfare changes.
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The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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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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Democrats don’t relate to middle-class people.
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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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