I don’t think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It’s a waste of resources.
CHARLES SCHUMERBut I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments – the American people really don’t care.
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People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
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Our job is going to be to hold Donald Trump and the Republican majority accountable.
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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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Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
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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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When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
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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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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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Candidates With Deeply Held Christian Beliefs Are Unfit and Disqualified From Serving As A Federal Judge.
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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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Democrats don’t relate to middle-class people.
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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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You do have to change things as warfare changes.
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