People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
CHARLES SCHUMERCrime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
More Charles Schumer Quotes
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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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The currency bill we have would finally do something for China`s rapacious policies.
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The highest priority you can have is education.
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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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I’d like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.
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Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.
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Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
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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?
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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 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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Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
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We’re going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We’re going to beat guns into submission!
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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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America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
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Unfortunately, the administration’s plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
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