When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
CHARLES SCHUMEROur job is going to be to hold Donald Trump and the Republican majority accountable.
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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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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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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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Unfortunately, the administration’s plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
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I’m still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people’s lives better.
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The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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I’m not sure we will have every single Democrat, but we want a large number of Republicans to be able to vote for this bill because we think that will encourage the House not only to move forward but to pass a bill.
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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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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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Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
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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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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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I think there’s going to be a lot of Americans who are really willing to be much more active than they were before, because they’re worried about where Trump is headed.
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We’re here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true.
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When a nominee doesn’t get 60 votes, you shouldn’t change the rules, you should change the nominee.
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