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Crime can be a unifying argument - not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.

Charles Schumer

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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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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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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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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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Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11.
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I feel very strongly that we need to change the way we do trade because it has been one of the major factors that lead to decline of middle class incomes.
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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'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
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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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Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people's rights away.
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Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.
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America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
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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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When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
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When you run for president you have certain obligations. One of them would be to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.
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This is government's primary function - to keep us safe - and when large percentages in America don't feel safe, they start asking: What am I paying my taxes for? What is government all about?
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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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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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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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