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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. "
Chuck Schumer
Insurance
See
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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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" Democrats don't relate to middle-class people. "
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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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" 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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" Middle class people, I think they realize that Romney is not for them because of his narrowness, but they want to make sure that Barack Obama is focused on them with things that will make a difference. They know he tried, but they also know that it didn't do as well as they would have liked. "
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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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" My father, Abe, was a small businessman. For 32 years, he ran an exterminating company. That may explain why our family always associated the smell of roach spray with love. "
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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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" To introduce a whole new tax regime, that would be modern tax reform. But that's too big a task. "
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" Working with the media remains an effective and essential way to raise issues, educate the public, and prod policy-makers and corporate leaders to change for the better. "
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" I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me. "
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Me
Were
Schools
" Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights pacing the floor, like my dad did, while their children, tucked in bed, dream big dreams. Families who aren't sure what Monday morning will bring, but who believe our nation's best days are still ahead. "
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" Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure. "
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Too
" Have kids; have a lot of kids. Start early and keep having them. "
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Having
Start
Lot
" You do have to change things as warfare changes. "
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You
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" Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love. "
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Life
Love
" You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President. "
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You
" 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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Better
" Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole. "
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Find
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" America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus. "
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" Reclassification is the best way to for us to preserve the Internet as an unfettered tool for communication and the sharing of ideas. "
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Us
" The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure. "
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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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" Mitt Romney's only bottom line is the one at the end of his own bank statement. The problem is that he confuses his own narrow, self-interest - and that of people like him - with the national interest. He thinks as long as we do right by the Mitt Romneys of the world, America will be just fine. "
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" We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms. "
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Legislative
Talk
" But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class. "
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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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" 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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" The Tea Party elites gained extraordinary influence by being able to funnel millions of undisclosed dollars into campaigns with ads that distort the truth and attack government. "
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