Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
CHARLES SCHUMEROur job is going to be to hold Donald Trump and the Republican majority accountable.
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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’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
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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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When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private.
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Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11.
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When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
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I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
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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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As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence.
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In today’s competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
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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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When a nominee doesn’t get 60 votes, you shouldn’t change the rules, you should change the nominee.
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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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America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
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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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