The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
CHARLES SCHUMERThe currency bill we have would finally do something for China`s rapacious policies.
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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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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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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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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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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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I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
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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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Our job is going to be to hold Donald Trump and the Republican majority accountable.
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When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
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The highest priority you can have is education.
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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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A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
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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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But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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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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Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
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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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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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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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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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Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
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The currency bill we have would finally do something for China`s rapacious policies.
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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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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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I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.
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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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