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 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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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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Certainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
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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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Democrats don’t relate to middle-class people.
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There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision.
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Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that’s not what any of us should want from our judges.
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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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When a nominee doesn’t get 60 votes, you shouldn’t change the rules, you should change the nominee.
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The highest priority you can have is education.
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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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I’m not sure we will have every single Democrat, but we want a large number of Republicans to be able to vote for this bill because we think that will encourage the House not only to move forward but to pass a bill.
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I want to attract the best people into teaching.
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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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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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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.
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