Democrats don’t relate to middle-class people.
CHARLES SCHUMERThe only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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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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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 think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
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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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We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
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But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don’t because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere.
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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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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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When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private.
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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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Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
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Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
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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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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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