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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.

Charles Schumer

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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Crime Democracy Domination Past
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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Feeling Function Government Myself Pay Primary Safety
In today’s competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
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Competition Death Economics Stand
The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.
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Negotiation Simplicity Yourself
We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
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Democracy Legislative Talk
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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Bigotry Excuse Explanation Poison
You do have to change things as warfare changes.
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Change Warfare Yourself
Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
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Freedom Give Up Serious
As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence.
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Build Choice People School Terrorism
An economic message, an economic platform unites the factory worker in Scranton, the young woman in Los Angeles struggling to pay her college debt and the single mom in Buffalo who’s on minimum wage.
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Economics Message Money Pay Struggle Woman Young
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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Election Eyes Face Lose Right Yourself
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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Experience Important Perspective President Reason Vision
Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11.
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Conservation Democracy Liberty Party President Right Yourself
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.
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Active Direction Head Myself Willing Worry
Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
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Hole Money Politics Soft System
All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.
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Car Register Vehicle

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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