People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
CHARLES SCHUMERWhen someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private.
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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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In today’s competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
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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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We’re here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true.
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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 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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The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.
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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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America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
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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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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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The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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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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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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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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I’m still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people’s lives better.
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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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When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
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What I want to do first with education is my student loan idea. Basically, if you go into teaching and teach for five years, your student loans should be forgiven. It doesn’t cost that much.
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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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All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.
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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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Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.
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Unfortunately, the administration’s plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
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I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
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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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