I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
CHARLES SCHUMERThe bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.
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The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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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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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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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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Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
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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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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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When a nominee doesn’t get 60 votes, you shouldn’t change the rules, you should change the nominee.
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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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America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
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Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
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But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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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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Certainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
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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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