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Vote:   | And I think a Barack Obama, a Bill Clinton, people who had success in these elections are Democrats who can talk in terms of values. |
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Vote: | Arafat was a barrier to peace. |
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Vote: | As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence. |
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Vote: | But I am worried about the future in Iraq, and I say that as somebody who's been for a strong foreign policy and voted for both the war and the $87 billion. |
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Vote: | But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class. |
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Vote: | But the most important thing is, I want to say, when the family sits down at the dinner table Friday night and discusses their problems, my job is how to make their load a little lighter. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | 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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Vote: | But you go upstate and there's an equal priority: jobs. The number of good-paying jobs upstate has declined. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Democrats don't relate to middle-class people. |
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Vote: | Education is a number one priority for all of New York state and for all of America. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Even Ashcroft had independence and did some things that were so far over that even the White House got angry with him. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I don't think there will ever be another statewide candidate who will make it his or her business to bash teachers. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I got support from teachers from one end of the state to the other: rural areas, inner cities and everywhere in between. |
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Vote: | 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. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession. |
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Vote: | I think the people who are pushing vouchers are not interested in educating our kids. |
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Vote: | I think ultimately, Jay, we may have to say that Iraq should be divided into, not three countries, but three semiautonomous regions. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | I want to attract the best people into teaching. |
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Vote: | I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me. |
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Vote: | I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants. |
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Vote: | I'm totally opposed to vouchers. I will fight them tooth and nail. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say? |
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Vote: | So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall. |
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Vote: | The key issues where Democrats have always brought the bacon home, so to speak, are, you know, the meat-and-potato issues, is a better way to put it. Health care, education, jobs, that's what average people care about. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | The Kurds in the north, they're ready for democracy. They have done democracy when there was the no-fly zone. Let them govern themselves. |
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Vote: | The more active people tend to vote. |
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Vote: | The problem is that we are involved, not in an head-on head war, which was the first three weeks, but rather in a guerrilla war. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | There has never, ever been, under Arafat, under Abbas, under any of the others, a real effort to curb the violence among the Palestinian people, and that may well be because most of the Palestinian people, not all, really approve of it. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | 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. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms. |
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Vote: | Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure. |
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Vote: | Well, the tough thing for them is that the Republican primary is pretty far over to the right, just as the Democratic primary is further over to the left than the average voter in each party. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | 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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Vote: | You do have to change things as warfare changes. |