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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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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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A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
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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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The currency bill we have would finally do something for China`s rapacious policies.
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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 can't have a Twitter president. This is serious stuff, this governing.
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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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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'm still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people's lives better.
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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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If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.
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President Trump ought to realize, he's not campaigning anymore. He's president. And instead of talking about how many people showed up at his inauguration, he ought to be talking about how many people are going to stay into the middle class and move into the middle class.
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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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America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
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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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