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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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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.
But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people’s rights away.
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Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people’s rights away.
Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that’s not what any of us should want from our judges.
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Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that’s not what any of us should want from our judges.
But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don’t because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere.
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But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don’t because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere.
Unfortunately, the administration’s plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
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Unfortunately, the administration’s plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don’t starve. Those are values, too.
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We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don’t starve. Those are values, too.
You can set up whatever negotiations or structure you want, but until the Palestinians are willing to accept the fact, as the majority of Israelis do, that there should be two states between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, we won’t have peace.
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You can set up whatever negotiations or structure you want, but until the Palestinians are willing to accept the fact, as the majority of Israelis do, that there should be two states between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, we won’t have peace.
I think we could be at a tipping point.
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I think we could be at a tipping point.
So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it’s a better education overall.
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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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