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.
CHARLES SCHUMERIf you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.
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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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It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.
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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 strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
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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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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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Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
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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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I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.
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Our job is going to be to hold Donald Trump and the Republican majority accountable.
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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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When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
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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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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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A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
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So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it’s a better education overall.
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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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Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people’s rights away.
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People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
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All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.
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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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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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We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
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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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America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
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I feel very strongly that we need to change the way we do trade because it has been one of the major factors that lead to decline of middle class incomes.
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