I’m still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people’s lives better.
CHARLES SCHUMERCertainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
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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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We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
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Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
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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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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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People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
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America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
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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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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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Unfortunately, the administration’s plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
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This is government’s primary function – to keep us safe – and when large percentages in America don’t feel safe, they start asking: What am I paying my taxes for? What is government all about?
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Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
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In today’s competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
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You do have to change things as warfare changes.
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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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