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.
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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So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it’s a better education overall.
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We’re going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We’re going to beat guns into submission!
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Democrats don’t relate to middle-class people.
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People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
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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.
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Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
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Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
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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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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 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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A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
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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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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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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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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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