In today’s competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
CHARLES SCHUMERIn today’s competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
CHARLES SCHUMERWhether 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.
CHARLES SCHUMERLet 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.
CHARLES SCHUMERWhen 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?
CHARLES SCHUMERI 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.
CHARLES SCHUMERWe tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
CHARLES SCHUMEROur job is going to be to hold Donald Trump and the Republican majority accountable.
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.
CHARLES SCHUMERThe only way we’re gonna work with Donald Trump is if he moves completely in our direction and abandons his Republican colleagues.
CHARLES SCHUMERBut I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
CHARLES SCHUMERWhen one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
CHARLES SCHUMERObviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people’s rights away.
CHARLES SCHUMERSubstantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
CHARLES SCHUMERWhat 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.
CHARLES SCHUMERI think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
CHARLES SCHUMERI went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.
CHARLES SCHUMER