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The Democratic Party was always there on crime, but in the past we let the ideologues on the left dominate. The Republicans may still let the ideologues on the right dominate.

Charles Schumer

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

Myself Resource Thinking Time Wasted
I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Myself Profession Teaching Thinking
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 SCHUMER

Goodness Government Replacement Yourself
What we are going to do as Democrats is put together a really strong platform that focuses on jobs and economic issues.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Democracy Economics Focus Issues Job Platform Strong Togetherness
The highest priority you can have is education.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Education High Priority Yourself
Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.
CHARLES SCHUMER

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

Brief Democracy Government Policy President
Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Argument Crime People
Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people’s rights away.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Conservative People Right
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Death Myself Offense Support Thinking
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?
CHARLES SCHUMER

Election Eyes Face Lose Right Yourself
When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Difference President Start Talk
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Active Direction Head Myself Willing Worry
But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don’t because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Economics Opportunity People Place Teaching Time Young
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?
CHARLES SCHUMER

Feeling Function Government Myself Pay Primary Safety
Unfortunately, the administration’s plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Administration Planning Problem

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