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.
CHARLES SCHUMERGiving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
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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 teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
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You do have to change things as warfare changes.
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The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.
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When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
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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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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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I don’t think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It’s a waste of resources.
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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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Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
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The highest priority you can have is education.
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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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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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We’re here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true.
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Democrats don’t relate to middle-class people.
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