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" Well, the tough thing for them is that the Republican primary is pretty far over to the right, just as the Democratic primary is further over to the left than the average voter in each party. "

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" Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole. "

" You have to show Israel that it's not going to be forced to do things it doesn't want to do and can't do. "

" 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. "

" Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble. "

" I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession. "

" To introduce a whole new tax regime, that would be modern tax reform. But that's too big a task. "

" 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. "

" But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class. "

" Democrats don't relate to middle-class people. "

" Most of the people I meet who are on unemployment are people who have had jobs for 25 years, lost them; they've been knocking on doors every week. "

" The bottom line is there are lots of problems that were not created by government. The biggest one is loss of middle class incomes, loss of good-paying jobs which was created by technology and globalization. Above all, when you can move a job to China or India, it reduces wages. "

" You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President. "

" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Any party that writes off 25, 30, 35 percent of the American people is not going to be a winner. "

" 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. "

" Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all. "

" Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure. "

" 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. "

" Wall Street excesses helped lead to the Great Recession. "

" I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary. "

" 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. "

" In today's competitive economy, to stand still is to die. "

" 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. "

" So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall. "

" You can set up whatever negotiations or structure you want, but until the Palestinians are willing to accept the fact, as the majority of Israelis do, that there should be two states between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, we won't have peace. "

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" The Tea Party is a rear guard, not a vanguard. "