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.
CHARLES SCHUMERNo 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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We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
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All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.
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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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Unfortunately, the administration’s plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
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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 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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Our job is going to be to hold Donald Trump and the Republican majority accountable.
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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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You do have to change things as warfare changes.
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The currency bill we have would finally do something for China`s rapacious policies.
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People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
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Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
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Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
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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 made education the highest priority of my campaign – actually education and jobs – and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.
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