But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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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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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I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
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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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Democrats don’t relate to middle-class people.
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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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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 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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A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
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Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
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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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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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The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.
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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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