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.
CHARLES SCHUMERWe’re going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We’re going to beat guns into submission!
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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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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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When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private.
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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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The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.
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If the Saudis were culpable, they should be held accountable. If they had nothing to do with 9/11, they have nothing to fear.
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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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Certainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
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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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Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
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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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I’m not sure we will have every single Democrat, but we want a large number of Republicans to be able to vote for this bill because we think that will encourage the House not only to move forward but to pass a bill.
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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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In today’s competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
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What we are going to do as Democrats is put together a really strong platform that focuses on jobs and economic issues.
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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.
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But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
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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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I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
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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.
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Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments – the American people really don’t care.
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Our job is going to be to hold Donald Trump and the Republican majority accountable.
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When a nominee doesn’t get 60 votes, you shouldn’t change the rules, you should change the nominee.
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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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The highest priority you can have is education.
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