I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
CHARLES SCHUMERCrime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
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Certainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
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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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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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I’m going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.
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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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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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But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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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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I think there’s going to be a lot of Americans who are really willing to be much more active than they were before, because they’re worried about where Trump is headed.
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We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
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I’d like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.
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In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.
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America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
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The only way we’re gonna work with Donald Trump is if he moves completely in our direction and abandons his Republican colleagues.
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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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