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But 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.

Charles Schumer

In today’s competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
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Competition Death Economics Stand
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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Feeling Function Government Myself Pay Primary Safety
Our job is going to be to hold Donald Trump and the Republican majority accountable.
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Accountable Job Majority Ourselves
When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
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Difference President Start Talk
Certainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
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Brief Democracy Government Policy President
When you run for president you have certain obligations. One of them would be to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.
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Appearance Avoid Conflict Interest Obligation President Run Yourself
Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
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Close Democracy People
The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.
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Class Decline Face Greatness Income Problem
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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Bad Ideology Judgement Law Ourselves Warrior
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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See Thinking Trouble Truth Way World
Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people’s rights away.
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Conservative People Right
There 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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Experience Important Perspective President Reason Vision
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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Care Health Insurance Myself Professional
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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Need Pay People Starve
If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.
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Bold Message Strong Unity Yourself
So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it’s a better education overall.
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Children Education Myself Public School
Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
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Argument Crime People
I’m going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.
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Call Focus Need People Politics
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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Defense Live Ourselves Protection Remember Respect Time
When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private.
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Phone Photograph Privacy
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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Active Direction Head Myself Willing Worry
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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Death Myself Offense Support Thinking
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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Democracy Economics Focus Issues Job Platform Strong Togetherness
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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Believe Enough Future Legal Oneself Tough
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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Cost Education Forgiveness Ideas Loan Student Teaching
People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
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Angry Crime Government People
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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Goodness Government Replacement Yourself

But 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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