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

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Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.
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The companies move labor to the lowest-cost markets. And so I don`t - I used to support these agreements. In the Congress, I lost the AFL-CIO endorsement a few years because I supported them. But when middle class incomes are declining, these agreements don`t work well for America.
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I want to attract the best people into teaching.
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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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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.
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When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets.
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Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people's rights away.
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Crime can be a unifying argument - not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
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The Democratic Party was always there on crime, but in the past we let the ideologues on the left dominate. The Republicans may still let the ideologues on the right dominate.
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When I started to get involved in the crime issue, people said, it's a local issue. I said, No, there are lots of ways the federal government can help. And the best way the federal government can help, and did in the Crime Bill, is to find programs that work around the country and help them spread.
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I don't think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It's a waste of resources.
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The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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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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I am deeply skeptical of trade deals in general.But the only way they can get a number of Democrats is by doing a strong real currency bill that goes after the worst of the trading partners, the one that`s stealing our high-end jobs.
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Candidates With Deeply Held Christian Beliefs Are Unfit and Disqualified From Serving As A Federal Judge.
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Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
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What we are going to do as Democrats is put together a really strong platform that focuses on jobs and economic issues.
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If you talk privately to our tech companies, our pharmaceutical companies, our high-end manufacturing companies, the high end of America, where the good-paying jobs are, China is not letting them in unless China gets to steal their intellectual property in a company that`s 51 percent owned by the Chinese.
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This bill [Immigration Reform and Control act of 1986] is a gamble, a riverboat gamble. There is no guarantee that employer sanctions will work or that amnesty will work. We are headed into uncharted waters.
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I'm still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people's lives better.
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