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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?

Charles Schumer

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So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.
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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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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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Candidates With Deeply Held Christian Beliefs Are Unfit and Disqualified From Serving As A Federal Judge.
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When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets.
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We can't have a Twitter president. This is serious stuff, this governing.
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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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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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A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
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Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
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