The highest priority you can have is education.
CHARLES SCHUMERSoft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
More Charles Schumer Quotes
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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.
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I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
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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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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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What we are going to do as Democrats is put together a really strong platform that focuses on jobs and economic issues.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Democrats don’t relate to middle-class people.
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But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
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The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.
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