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 SCHUMERRepublicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can’t. After all, Mitt Romney’s idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there.
More Charles Schumer Quotes
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When a nominee doesn’t get 60 votes, you shouldn’t change the rules, you should change the nominee.
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We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
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When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
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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.
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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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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.
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The only way we’re gonna work with Donald Trump is if he moves completely in our direction and abandons his Republican colleagues.
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The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
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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 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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I want to attract the best people into teaching.
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The currency bill we have would finally do something for China`s rapacious policies.
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Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
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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.
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