Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
CHARLES SCHUMERI went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.
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Our job is going to be to hold Donald Trump and the Republican majority accountable.
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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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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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An economic message, an economic platform unites the factory worker in Scranton, the young woman in Los Angeles struggling to pay her college debt and the single mom in Buffalo who’s on minimum wage.
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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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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 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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Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
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I want to attract the best people into teaching.
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Democrats don’t relate to middle-class people.
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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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I’m going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.
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But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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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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The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.
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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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Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people’s rights away.
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I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
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When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
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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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In today’s competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
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The highest priority you can have is education.
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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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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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Certainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
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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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