I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
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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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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When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
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So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it’s a better education overall.
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When you run for president you have certain obligations. One of them would be to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.
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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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Democrats don’t relate to middle-class people.
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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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The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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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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If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.
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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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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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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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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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Unfortunately, the administration’s plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
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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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All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.
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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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You do have to change things as warfare changes.
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Candidates With Deeply Held Christian Beliefs Are Unfit and Disqualified From Serving As A Federal Judge.
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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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Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
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When you lose an election, you don’t blink, you don’t turn away. You look it right in the eye and say, why did we lose?
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There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision.
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The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.
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If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.
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