I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
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 want to attract the best people into teaching.
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It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.
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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 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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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.
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Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
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If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.
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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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You do have to change things as warfare changes.
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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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The highest priority you can have is education.
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When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
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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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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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Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
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People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
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The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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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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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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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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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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I’m going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.
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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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Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
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I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.
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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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