America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
CHARLES SCHUMERWhen a nominee doesn’t get 60 votes, you shouldn’t change the rules, you should change the nominee.
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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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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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I’m still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people’s lives better.
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People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
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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.
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It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.
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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.
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Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
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Unfortunately, the administration’s plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
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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.
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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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Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
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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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Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
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If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.
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