I’m still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people’s lives better.
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.
More Charles Schumer Quotes
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Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.
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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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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.
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Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
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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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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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The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.
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In today’s competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
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So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it’s a better education overall.
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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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When 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?
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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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Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
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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’m going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.
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