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.
CHARLES SCHUMERThe bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.
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We’re going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We’re going to beat guns into submission!
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We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
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Democrats don’t relate to middle-class people.
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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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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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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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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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I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
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America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
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All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.
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When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
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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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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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Unfortunately, the administration’s plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
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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.
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The only way we’re gonna work with Donald Trump is if he moves completely in our direction and abandons his Republican colleagues.
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Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
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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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Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
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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 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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But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
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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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I want to attract the best people into teaching.
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I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.
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