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If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.
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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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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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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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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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Arafat was a barrier to peace.
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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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I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.
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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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America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
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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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You do have to change things as warfare changes.
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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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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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Donald Trump, when he gives his speeches, talks like a populist. And he talks to middle class and working America and poor people. But when he governs, at least in his first 40 days, he governs like a hard-right guy.
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The currency bill we have would finally do something for China`s rapacious policies.
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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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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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The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.
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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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