A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
CHARLES SCHUMERIn 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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When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
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But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
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The public knows how many good things there are as part of the Affordable Care Act. The Republicans say they’re going to repeal. They don’t know what to replace it with.
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Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
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In today’s competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
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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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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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I am deeply skeptical of trade deals in general.But the only way they can get a number of Democrats is by doing a strong real currency bill that goes after the worst of the trading partners, the one that`s stealing our high-end jobs.
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The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.
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I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.
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We’re here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true.
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I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
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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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Our job is going to be to hold Donald Trump and the Republican majority accountable.
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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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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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The highest priority you can have is education.
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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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We’re going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We’re going to beat guns into submission!
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I’d like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.
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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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Certainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
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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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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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