People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
CHARLES SCHUMERI 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.
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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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When you run for president you have certain obligations. One of them would be to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.
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Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
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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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Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
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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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A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
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So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it’s a better education overall.
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I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
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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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America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
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What I want to do first with education is my student loan idea. Basically, if you go into teaching and teach for five years, your student loans should be forgiven. It doesn’t cost that much.
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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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There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision.
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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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