Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.
CHARLES SCHUMERSubstantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
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The public knows how many good things there are as part of the Affordable Care Act. The Republicans say they’re going to repeal. They don’t know what to replace it with.
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In today’s competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
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We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
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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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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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As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence.
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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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The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.
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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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The highest priority you can have is education.
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When a nominee doesn’t get 60 votes, you shouldn’t change the rules, you should change the nominee.
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In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.
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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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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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Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
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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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A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
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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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The export market is based, on high-paying jobs. I`ve seen statistics that show that people make over 88 a year generally benefit from this because these are export jobs.
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If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.
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We’re here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true.
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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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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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