I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
CHARLES SCHUMERIdeological 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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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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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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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 still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people’s lives better.
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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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I don’t think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It’s a waste of resources.
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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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We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
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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 highest priority you can have is education.
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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 export market is based, on high-paying jobs. I`ve seen statistics that show that people make over 88 a year generally benefit from this because these are export jobs.
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The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.
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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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Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
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