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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.

Charles Schumer

When you run for president you have certain obligations. One of them would be to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Appearance Avoid Conflict Interest Obligation President Run Yourself
I’m still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people’s lives better.
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Better Ideal Live People Translation
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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Accomplishment Democracy Ideas Job Paint Time Try
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Cost Education Forgiveness Ideas Loan Student Teaching
In today’s competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
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Competition Death Economics Stand
Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
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Freedom Give Up Serious
Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Bigotry Excuse Explanation Poison
When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private.
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Phone Photograph Privacy
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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Economics Opportunity People Place Teaching Time Young
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 SCHUMER

Feeling Function Government Myself Pay Primary Safety
When a nominee doesn’t get 60 votes, you shouldn’t change the rules, you should change the nominee.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Candidate Change Fair Government Rule Vote Yourself
The currency bill we have would finally do something for China`s rapacious policies.
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Country Current Policy World
I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Accountant Doctor Right Strong
I’m going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Call Focus Need People Politics
We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Democracy Legislative Talk
If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.
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Bold Message Strong Unity Yourself
Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
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Close Democracy People
The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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Murder People Weapon
The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.
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Class Decline Face Greatness Income Problem
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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Job Marketing Myself Pay
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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Believe Enough Future Legal Oneself Tough
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Active Direction Head Myself Willing Worry
I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Education Greatness Myself Public School
If the Saudis were culpable, they should be held accountable. If they had nothing to do with 9/11, they have nothing to fear.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Accountability Culprit Fear Police
What we are going to do as Democrats is put together a really strong platform that focuses on jobs and economic issues.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Democracy Economics Focus Issues Job Platform Strong Togetherness
Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
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Action Greatness Mistake
Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
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Argument Crime People

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