The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
CHARLES SCHUMERCrime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
More Charles Schumer Quotes
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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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It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.
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The only way we’re gonna work with Donald Trump is if he moves completely in our direction and abandons his Republican colleagues.
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Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can’t. After all, Mitt Romney’s idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there.
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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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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.
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People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
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All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.
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When you run for president you have certain obligations. One of them would be to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.
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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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Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
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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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I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
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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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Certainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
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