I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.
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More Charles Schumer Quotes
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People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
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I am deeply skeptical of trade deals in general.But the only way they can get a number of Democrats is by doing a strong real currency bill that goes after the worst of the trading partners, the one that`s stealing our high-end jobs.
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What we are going to do as Democrats is put together a really strong platform that focuses on jobs and economic issues.
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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.
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You do have to change things as warfare changes.
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The highest priority you can have is education.
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But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments – the American people really don’t care.
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Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
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Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.
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We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
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An economic message, an economic platform unites the factory worker in Scranton, the young woman in Los Angeles struggling to pay her college debt and the single mom in Buffalo who’s on minimum wage.
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Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
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Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
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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 want to attract the best people into teaching.
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Democrats don’t relate to middle-class people.
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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.
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America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
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The only way we’re gonna work with Donald Trump is if he moves completely in our direction and abandons his Republican colleagues.
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I think there’s going to be a lot of Americans who are really willing to be much more active than they were before, because they’re worried about where Trump is headed.
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The public knows how many good things there are as part of the Affordable Care Act. The Republicans say they’re going to repeal. They don’t know what to replace it with.
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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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I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
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Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can’t. After all, Mitt Romney’s idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there.
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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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