I don’t think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It’s a waste of resources.
CHARLES SCHUMER
I’m going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.
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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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Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
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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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Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people’s rights away.
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People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
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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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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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I’m going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.
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You do have to change things as warfare changes.
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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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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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But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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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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The only way we’re gonna work with Donald Trump is if he moves completely in our direction and abandons his Republican colleagues.
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