I don’t think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It’s a waste of resources.
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But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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I am deeply skeptical of trade deals in general.But the only way they can get a number of Democrats is by doing a strong real currency bill that goes after the worst of the trading partners, the one that`s stealing our high-end jobs.
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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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I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
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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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The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.
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We’re here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true.
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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 tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
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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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Our job is going to be to hold Donald Trump and the Republican majority accountable.
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Unfortunately, the administration’s plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
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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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A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
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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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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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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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Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
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The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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We’re going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We’re going to beat guns into submission!
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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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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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Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
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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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When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
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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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