The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.
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We’re here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true.
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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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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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If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.
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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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Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people’s rights away.
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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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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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Candidates With Deeply Held Christian Beliefs Are Unfit and Disqualified From Serving As A Federal Judge.
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I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
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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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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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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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Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
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I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.
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All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.
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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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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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I’m still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people’s lives better.
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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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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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The currency bill we have would finally do something for China`s rapacious policies.
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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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You do have to change things as warfare changes.
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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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