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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?

Charles Schumer

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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Build Choice People School Terrorism
When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Difference President Start Talk
I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Accountant Doctor Right Strong
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Need Pay People Starve
The export market is based, on high-paying jobs. I`ve seen statistics that show that people make over 88 a year generally benefit from this because these are export jobs.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Job Marketing Myself Pay
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Economics Message Money Pay Struggle Woman Young
We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
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Democracy Legislative Talk
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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Economics Opportunity People Place Teaching Time Young
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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Believe Enough Future Legal Oneself Tough
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
America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Compassionate People Place Togetherness
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Goodness Government Replacement Yourself
The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Negotiation Simplicity Yourself
Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.
CHARLES SCHUMER

See Thinking Trouble Truth Way World
I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Myself Profession Teaching 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

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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