In today’s competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
CHARLES SCHUMERRepublicans 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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The highest priority you can have is education.
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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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The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.
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Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments – the American people really don’t care.
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The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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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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I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
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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’re here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true.
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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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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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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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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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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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