Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that’s not what any of us should want from our judges.
CHARLES SCHUMERCrime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
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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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People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
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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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If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.
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We’re here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true.
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All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.
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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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We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
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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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What we are going to do as Democrats is put together a really strong platform that focuses on jobs and economic issues.
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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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America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
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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.
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When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
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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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Unfortunately, the administration’s plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
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The export market is based, on high-paying jobs. I`ve seen statistics that show that people make over 88 a year generally benefit from this because these are export jobs.
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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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Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
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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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When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private.
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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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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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It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.
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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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