I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.
CHARLES SCHUMERI’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
More Charles Schumer Quotes
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If the Saudis were culpable, they should be held accountable. If they had nothing to do with 9/11, they have nothing to fear.
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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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So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it’s a better education overall.
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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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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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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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The highest priority you can have is education.
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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 only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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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 still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people’s lives better.
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But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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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.
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I don’t think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It’s a waste of resources.
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All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.
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