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?
CHARLES SCHUMERI 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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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 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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When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
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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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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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All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.
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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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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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Unfortunately, the administration’s plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
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What I want to do first with education is my student loan idea. Basically, if you go into teaching and teach for five years, your student loans should be forgiven. It doesn’t cost that much.
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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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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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America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
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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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If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.
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The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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Candidates With Deeply Held Christian Beliefs Are Unfit and Disqualified From Serving As A Federal Judge.
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The currency bill we have would finally do something for China`s rapacious policies.
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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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The highest priority you can have is education.
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Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
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Our job is going to be to hold Donald Trump and the Republican majority accountable.
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But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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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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Certainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
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