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.
CHARLES SCHUMERLet 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 only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.
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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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I’m still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people’s lives better.
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The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.
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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 think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
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I want to attract the best people into teaching.
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Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
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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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I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.
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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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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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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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Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
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