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 SCHUMERThe 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.
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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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When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
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The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private.
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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 made education the highest priority of my campaign – actually education and jobs – and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.
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People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
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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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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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Candidates With Deeply Held Christian Beliefs Are Unfit and Disqualified From Serving As A Federal Judge.
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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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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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I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
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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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Certainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
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