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" Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do. "
Chuck Schumer
Giving Up
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" I think it's a little insulting, a bit insulting to American workers when Rand Paul says that unemployment insurance is a disservice. "
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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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" Voters did say 'repeal health care', they did say 'reduce the size of government.' But not a single one of them from the tea party or anywhere said 'give tax breaks to the wealthiest.' "
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" Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole. "
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" The Tea Party elites believe government is evil. Everything about government is bad, and they blame all problems, even non-economic problems, problems that were caused by the private sector, on government. "
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" I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company. "
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" What the public hates the most is when they think the politicians aren't listening to them. They understand that we can't solve all their problems with a snap of our fingers, but they sure want us to try because we are public servants. "
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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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" Mr. Snowden is a coward who has chosen to run. "
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" Every administration has this idea to talk tough to Israel and make nice to the Arabs and the Palestinians, and that's the way to bring about peace. It's counter-productive - it's actually the opposite. "
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" I'm totally opposed to vouchers. I will fight them tooth and nail. "
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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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" To do health care was a noble, good thing, and it will help America dramatically. I don't begrudge Barack Obama choosing it, even though if I were president, I might not have. "
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Help
Health
Good
" We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms. "
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Party
Legislative
Talk
" Wall Street excesses helped lead to the Great Recession. "
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Great
Wall
" 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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Always
" Everyone has a hole inside themselves. They don't know they had it until they have kids, and then that hole fills up. And it's so great; it's just God's greatest gift to us. "
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" On foreign policy, President Obama has kept our nation safe from terrorism and restored our standing in the world. When it comes to one of our closest allies - Israel - President Obama has been resolute. "
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Terrorism
World
Nation
" There are some tax expenditures that are there for very obvious and very important and very good policy reasons. Whether it's the charitable deduction or the deduction for homes, it's not a loophole. "
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Tax
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" You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President. "
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" I want to attract the best people into teaching. "
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" We certainly want those at the top to do well, but if you base your entire presidency and your entire economic platform on helping them do even better, you're missing what makes the economy tick. Because not everyone has been as fortunate as Mitt Romney, you cannot base your whole approach on a life experience as rarified as his. "
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" Mitt Romney would move the Court even further right, putting landmark decisions like Roe v. Wade at risk. Some say Romney would repeat the past. I disagree - he'd be worse. "
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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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" If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say? "
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" The fundamental weakness in the Tea Party machine is the stark difference between what the leaders of the Tea Party elite - plutocrats like the Koch Brothers -want and what the average grassroots Tea Party follower wants. "
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" There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can't wait to go to work? And when you're ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, 'I can't wait to go home?' "
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Work
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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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Just
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" Economic conservatives like immigration reform, and in fact, many of them supported the bill that John McCain and I put together in the Senate. "
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