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I want to attract the best people into teaching.

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When you lose an election, you don't blink, you don't turn away. You look it right in the eye and say, why did we lose?
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Candidates With Deeply Held Christian Beliefs Are Unfit and Disqualified From Serving As A Federal Judge.
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I'm not sure we will have every single Democrat ... but we want a large number of Republicans to be able to vote for this bill because we think that will encourage the House not only to move forward but to pass a bill.
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An economic message, an economic platform unites the factory worker in Scranton, the young woman in Los Angeles struggling to pay her college debt and the single mom in Buffalo who's on minimum wage.
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All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.
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When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
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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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We repeal sanctions, it tells Russia, go ahead and interfere in our elections and do bad things it tells China, it tells Iran. That would be terrible.
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Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
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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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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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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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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'm still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people's lives better.
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Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure.
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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.
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When a nominee doesn't get 60 votes, you shouldn't change the rules, you should change the nominee.
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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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Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.
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