Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
CHARLES SCHUMERThe greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.
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The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.
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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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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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Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
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The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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I’m not sure we will have every single Democrat, but we want a large number of Republicans to be able to vote for this bill because we think that will encourage the House not only to move forward but to pass a bill.
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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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I feel very strongly that we need to change the way we do trade because it has been one of the major factors that lead to decline of middle class incomes.
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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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When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
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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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A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
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If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.
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In today’s competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
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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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Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people’s rights away.
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Democrats don’t relate to middle-class people.
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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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Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
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We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
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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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The export market is based, on high-paying jobs. I`ve seen statistics that show that people make over 88 a year generally benefit from this because these are export jobs.
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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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But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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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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