The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.
CHARLES SCHUMERIf 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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I’m still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people’s lives better.
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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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When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
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We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
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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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But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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Our job is going to be to hold Donald Trump and the Republican majority accountable.
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Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can’t. After all, Mitt Romney’s idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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