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" After Charlottesville, our politics have now borne witness to a U.S. president at times openly defending neo-Nazis and white supremacists before condemning them. "
Now
Before
White
" A high school diploma will no longer be sufficient. But that post secondary education does not have to be a four-year university or a four-year college. It can be career technical education, vocational education, community college. "
Community
School
College
" America works best when we work together to expand the circle of inclusion. "
Best
America
Circle
" As an immigrant, I am grateful for the tremendous opportunities that this great nation has afforded me and my family. I am also aware of the ongoing challenges that immigrants confront, and understand that respecting law and borders is essential for keeping America strong. "
Great
Grateful
Family
" China is eating our lunch with regard to renewable energy. "
Renewable Energy
Eating
Energy
" Equality as a principle is at the heart of our democracy. "
Heart
Principle
Democracy
" Even people who have successfully obtained a visa are sometimes being turned back at the airport. Such incidents have never happened in the past but are increasing now because even low level officers of the border patrol department are being entrusted with too much discretion power on how they execute the laws. "
People
Power
Past
" Every night at dinner, my father would say something about the greatness of the United States - and tell us to make sure the government is there for the next people who come along and need it. "
Greatness
Father
Night
" For too long, people in Washington and Congress point fingers at each other, even as millions of middle-class Americans remain unemployed and our economy continues to sputter. They must realize that we are all in this together, and I respectfully submit that the best way to remind Congress of this is to tie their pay to their collective results. "
Long
People
Best
" I believe the benefits of tax reform should flow to those who most need them most - hard-pressed working families struggling to reach or stay in the middle class. "
Believe
Reach
Need
" If I am elected to Congress, I plan to introduce legislation tying Congressional pay to performance. "
Plan
Performance
Pay
" If I am elected to Congress, I will put the interests of our community first, and I will actively seek input and respond to it. "
Will
Community
Congress
" I hope that President-elect Trump will drop his unrealistic campaign pledge to deport millions of immigrants who've made their lives in this country and contribute to our country. "
Hope
Immigrants
Will
" In some ways, 'decency' is a hazy concept; we know it when we see it. "
Ways
Concept
Decency
" In the past, leaders of both parties have been able to reach across the partisan divide. They succeeded by retaining their own humanity and recognizing the same in their political opponents. "
Political
Reach
Humanity
" In truth, ending DACA will cost us tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic activity. "
Cost
Will
Us
" I think with the right leadership on both sides and the right president, we can get a lot done. "
Done
Leadership
Both Sides
" Our country's history is a generation-spanning journey to effectuate the notion that 'all men are created equal' for the members of our ever-expanding national family: women, African-Americans, Latinos, Asians, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, gays and lesbians, the disabled, immigrants, and refugees. "
Men
Family
History
" Partisan politics is not my passion. "
Passion
Politics
Partisan
" There's a lot of good, bipartisan legislation that passes in committee and then gets bottled up. As a businessman, it surprised me. "
Good
Me
Up
" The truth is that searching for our commonality instead of our differences could transform our dysfunctional politics. "
Differences
Politics
Truth Is
" Trumpcare would be devastating for millions of American families, but perhaps no one will bear the brunt of its cruelty more than older Americans. "
Will
Cruelty
Bear
" We cannot afford to balance the budget on the backs of America's middle class and seniors and must do what it takes to strengthen Social Security and Medicare, including enabling the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs. "
Government
Balance
America
" When a foreign adversary knows that an American official has deceived or withheld vital information from our government, it creates a fundamental counterintelligence vulnerability that can render that official irreparably compromised. "
Government
Knows
American
" When the chair of an investigating committee refuses to share vital findings or source information with any of his colleagues, his committee's ability to function has been fundamentally undermined. "
Colleagues
Information
Chair
" When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust. "
Trust
Kindness
Honesty
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