If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.
CHARLES SCHUMERI’m still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people’s lives better.
More Charles Schumer Quotes
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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.
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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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The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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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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Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people’s rights away.
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Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
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When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
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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.
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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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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.
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It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.
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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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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 went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.
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What I want to do first with education is my student loan idea. Basically, if you go into teaching and teach for five years, your student loans should be forgiven. It doesn’t cost that much.
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