Certainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
CHARLES SCHUMERThere 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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I’m going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.
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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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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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When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
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We’re here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true.
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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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The currency bill we have would finally do something for China`s rapacious policies.
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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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People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
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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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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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I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
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Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
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Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
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Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people’s rights away.
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The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.
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The Democratic Party was always there on crime, but in the past we let the ideologues on the left dominate. The Republicans may still let the ideologues on the right dominate.
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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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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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