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.
CHARLES SCHUMERAnyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.
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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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Unfortunately, the administration’s plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
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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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I feel very strongly that we need to change the way we do trade because it has been one of the major factors that lead to decline of middle class incomes.
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When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
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In today’s competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
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But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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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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Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
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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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The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.
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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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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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Certainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
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