Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
CHARLES SCHUMERWhen the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
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I support the death penalty for the kingpin, the guy at the top, but I don’t think you should throw a drug offender in jail for five years, and let a mugger out after a year.
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All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.
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Unfortunately, the administration’s plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
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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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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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We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don’t starve. Those are values, too.
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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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Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
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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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We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
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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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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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Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people’s rights away.
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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 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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