Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
CHARLES SCHUMERWe 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.
More Charles Schumer Quotes
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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.
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The highest priority you can have is education.
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The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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I want to attract the best people into teaching.
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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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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 tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
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I don’t think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It’s a waste of resources.
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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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The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.
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I support the death penalty for the kingpin, the guy at the top, but I don’t think you should throw a drug offender in jail for five years, and let a mugger out after a year.
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I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.
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But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
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