This is government’s primary function – to keep us safe – and when large percentages in America don’t feel safe, they start asking: What am I paying my taxes for? What is government all about?
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 you lose an election, you don’t blink, you don’t turn away. You look it right in the eye and say, why did we lose?
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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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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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We’re here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true.
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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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You do have to change things as warfare changes.
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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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I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
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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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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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When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
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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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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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Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
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If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.
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