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Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

Charles Schumer

Certainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Brief Democracy Government Policy President
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 SCHUMER

Care Class Focus People
Unfortunately, the administration’s plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Administration Planning Problem
When a nominee doesn’t get 60 votes, you shouldn’t change the rules, you should change the nominee.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Candidate Change Fair Government Rule Vote Yourself
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

Brave Enough Home Mistake Protection Security Simplicity World
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 SCHUMER

Active Direction Head Myself Willing Worry
Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Bigotry Excuse Explanation Poison
If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Greatness Hope Myself Power Prayer Stay Time Wrong
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Democracy Encouragement Home Move Myself Thinking Vote
But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don’t because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere.
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Economics Opportunity People Place Teaching Time Young
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

Bad Ideology Judgement Law Ourselves Warrior
All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Car Register Vehicle
America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Compassionate People Place Togetherness
I’m going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Call Focus Need People Politics
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Education Future Job Myself Priority Thinking
As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Build Choice People School Terrorism
Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
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Action Greatness Mistake
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

See Thinking Trouble Truth Way World
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Goodness Government Replacement Yourself
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

Cost Education Forgiveness Ideas Loan Student Teaching
When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Answer Continue Oneself Success
I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Education Greatness Myself Public School
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

Myself Resource Thinking Time Wasted
I feel very strongly that we need to change the way we do trade because it has been one of the major factors that lead to decline of middle class incomes.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Change Factor Feeling Leadership Strong Way
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

Abandonment Complete Direction Himself Move Work
There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Experience Important Perspective President Reason Vision
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

Death Myself Offense Support Thinking

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