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.
CHARLES SCHUMERI’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
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But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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I want to attract the best people into teaching.
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Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.
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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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But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don’t because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere.
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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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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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In today’s competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
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When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
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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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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 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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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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When a nominee doesn’t get 60 votes, you shouldn’t change the rules, you should change the nominee.
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