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.
CHARLES SCHUMERWhen you run for president you have certain obligations. One of them would be to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.
More Charles Schumer Quotes
-
-
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER -
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER -
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 -
The only way we’re gonna work with Donald Trump is if he moves completely in our direction and abandons his Republican colleagues.
CHARLES SCHUMER -
Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
CHARLES SCHUMER -
We’re here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true.
CHARLES SCHUMER -
Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
CHARLES SCHUMER -
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER -
I’m going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.
CHARLES SCHUMER -
You do have to change things as warfare changes.
CHARLES SCHUMER -
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 -
The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.
CHARLES SCHUMER -
I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.
CHARLES SCHUMER -
But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
CHARLES SCHUMER -
Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that’s not what any of us should want from our judges.
CHARLES SCHUMER -
Certainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
CHARLES SCHUMER -
In today’s competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
CHARLES SCHUMER -
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER -
I’d like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.
CHARLES SCHUMER -
Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people’s rights away.
CHARLES SCHUMER -
The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
CHARLES SCHUMER -
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER -
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 -
People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
CHARLES SCHUMER -
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 -
I don’t think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It’s a waste of resources.
CHARLES SCHUMER