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In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.

Charles Schumer

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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

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But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Class Democracy Eyes Level Myself Thinking
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 SCHUMER

Feeling Function Government Myself Pay Primary Safety
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Conservation Democracy Liberty Party President Right Yourself
Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
CHARLES SCHUMER

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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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Crime Democracy Domination Past
I’m still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people’s lives better.
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People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
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Angry Crime Government People
Democrats don’t relate to middle-class people.
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Class Democracy People
Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Freedom Give Up Serious
In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.
CHARLES SCHUMER

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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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Need Pay People Starve
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 only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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Murder People Weapon
All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.
CHARLES SCHUMER

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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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In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.

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In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.

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