What we are going to do as Democrats is put together a really strong platform that focuses on jobs and economic issues.
CHARLES SCHUMERBut 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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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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Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments – the American people really don’t care.
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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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Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
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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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Unfortunately, the administration’s plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
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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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But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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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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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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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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Democrats don’t relate to middle-class people.
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Our job is going to be to hold Donald Trump and the Republican majority accountable.
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