Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
CHARLES SCHUMERI’m going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.
More Charles Schumer Quotes
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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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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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Unfortunately, the administration’s plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
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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.
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We’re going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We’re going to beat guns into submission!
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The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.
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I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.
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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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I made education the highest priority of my campaign – actually education and jobs – and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.
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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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Democrats don’t relate to middle-class people.
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The highest priority you can have is education.
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I’m not sure we will have every single Democrat, but we want a large number of Republicans to be able to vote for this bill because we think that will encourage the House not only to move forward but to pass a bill.
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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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