We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
CHARLES SCHUMERWhen one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
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Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
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I made education the highest priority of my campaign – actually education and jobs – and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.
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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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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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Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people’s rights away.
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I want to attract the best people into teaching.
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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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The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.
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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 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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Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that’s not what any of us should want from our judges.
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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 only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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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?
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We’re here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true.
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