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Charles Schumer

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Myself Profession Teaching Thinking
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?
CHARLES SCHUMER

Feeling Function Government Myself Pay Primary Safety
No one believed [the 1986 amnesty for illegal aliens] was tough enough on illegal immigration, and it didn’t give enough flexibility on future legal immigration.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Believe Enough Future Legal Oneself Tough
When a nominee doesn’t get 60 votes, you shouldn’t change the rules, you should change the nominee.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Candidate Change Fair Government Rule Vote Yourself
If the Saudis were culpable, they should be held accountable. If they had nothing to do with 9/11, they have nothing to fear.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Accountability Culprit Fear Police
People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Angry Crime Government People
Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Argument Crime People
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Education Future Job Myself Priority Thinking
In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Brave Enough Home Mistake Protection Security Simplicity World
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Bad Ideology Judgement Law Ourselves Warrior
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Democracy Encouragement Home Move Myself Thinking Vote
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Crime Democracy Domination Past
Unfortunately, the administration’s plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Administration Planning Problem
It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Defense Live Ourselves Protection Remember Respect Time
Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Close Democracy People
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Conservation Democracy Liberty Party President Right Yourself

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