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I don’t think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It’s a waste of resources.

Charles Schumer

Certainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Brief Democracy Government Policy President
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 the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
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If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.
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Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
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Close Democracy People
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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The only way we’re gonna work with Donald Trump is if he moves completely in our direction and abandons his Republican colleagues.
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We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
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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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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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Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
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As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence.
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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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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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I’m going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.
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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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Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
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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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I’m still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people’s lives better.
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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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All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.
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Candidates With Deeply Held Christian Beliefs Are Unfit and Disqualified From Serving As A Federal Judge.
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Candidate Judgement Religious Service
If the Saudis were culpable, they should be held accountable. If they had nothing to do with 9/11, they have nothing to fear.
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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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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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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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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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