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.
CHARLES SCHUMERWhen someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private.
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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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All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.
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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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Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
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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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The Democratic Party was always there on crime, but in the past we let the ideologues on the left dominate. The Republicans may still let the ideologues on the right dominate.
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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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But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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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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Democrats don’t relate to middle-class people.
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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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Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
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Our job is going to be to hold Donald Trump and the Republican majority accountable.
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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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