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" You have to walk in the other guy's moccasins. You have to think what they think. If you want to bring somebody onto your side, you have to figure out what motivates them. What do they need? "

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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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" The Internet in the 21st Century is as important to our future as highways were in the 20th Century. Like a highway, the Internet must remain free and open for all - not determined by the highest bidders. "

" Have kids; have a lot of kids. Start early and keep having them. "

" Palestinians don't really believe in a state of Israel. They, unlike a majority of Israelis, who have come to the conclusion that they can live with a two-state solution to be determined by the parties, the majority of Palestinians are still very reluctant, and they need to be pushed to get there. "

" 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. "

" 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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" I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company. "

" You do have to change things as warfare changes. "

" I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants. "

" 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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" The way to lessen the grip of the Tea Party on the electoral process would be to do what a handful have done and have a primary where all voters, members of every party, can vote, and the top two vote-getters then enter a runoff. "

" I want to attract the best people into teaching. "

" We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms. "

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

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

" 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. "

" We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too. "

" When Republicans say, 'The first thing you do when you do deficit reduction is reduce rates,' it would be like Democrats saying, 'The first thing you do when you do deficit reduction is provide free Medicare at age 55.' We'd like to do that! But it won't bring the deficit down. That's for sure. "

" I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it. "

" To those like Mitt Romney who want to take us backwards, let's send a strong message in November: as we say in Brooklyn, 'Fuhgeddaboutit.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Arafat was a barrier to peace. "

" When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets. We know Mitt Romney never met a tax haven he didn't like. But his new favorite tax haven is actually not the Cayman Islands - its Paul Ryan's budget. "

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

" America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus. "

" If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say? "

" The vast majority of the people employed by Wall Street are the secretary who goes in to work on the Long Island Rail Road, who makes fifty, sixty, seventy thousand dollars a year. "

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