When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
CHARLES SCHUMERThe bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.
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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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I’m still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people’s lives better.
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America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
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Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
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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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Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
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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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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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Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
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The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.
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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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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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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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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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I’m going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.
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