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.
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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When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
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Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.
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Democrats don’t relate to middle-class people.
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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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The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.
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We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don’t starve. Those are values, too.
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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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The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.
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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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People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
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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 only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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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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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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But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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