Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
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People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
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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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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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Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
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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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When you run for president you have certain obligations. One of them would be to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.
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I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.
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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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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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When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private.
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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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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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I am deeply skeptical of trade deals in general.But the only way they can get a number of Democrats is by doing a strong real currency bill that goes after the worst of the trading partners, the one that`s stealing our high-end jobs.
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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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I’m going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.
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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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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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I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
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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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The highest priority you can have is education.
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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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The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.
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As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence.
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But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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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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