I don’t think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It’s a waste of resources.
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 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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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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If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.
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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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Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
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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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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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Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
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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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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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All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.
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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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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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Certainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
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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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