This is government’s primary function – to keep us safe – and when large percentages in America don’t feel safe, they start asking: What am I paying my taxes for? What is government all about?
CHARLES SCHUMERWhat 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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I’m going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.
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Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
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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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The currency bill we have would finally do something for China`s rapacious policies.
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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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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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You do have to change things as warfare changes.
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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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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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When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
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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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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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The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.
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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 someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private.
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