Let 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 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 SCHUMERGiving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
CHARLES SCHUMERI’d like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.
CHARLES SCHUMERIf the Saudis were culpable, they should be held accountable. If they had nothing to do with 9/11, they have nothing to fear.
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 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 one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
CHARLES SCHUMERWhen you run for president you have certain obligations. One of them would be to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.
CHARLES SCHUMERThe only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
CHARLES SCHUMEROur job is going to be to hold Donald Trump and the Republican majority accountable.
CHARLES SCHUMERThe greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.
CHARLES SCHUMERA devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
CHARLES SCHUMERThe 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.
CHARLES SCHUMERI’m going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.
CHARLES SCHUMERAnyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.
CHARLES SCHUMERCertainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
CHARLES SCHUMER