When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
CHARLES SCHUMERWhen 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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Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
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Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can’t. After all, Mitt Romney’s idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there.
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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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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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Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
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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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No one believed [the 1986 amnesty for illegal aliens] was tough enough on illegal immigration, and it didn’t give enough flexibility on future legal immigration.
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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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I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
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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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Unfortunately, the administration’s plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
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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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But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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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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When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
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