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This is government’s primary function – to keep us safe – and when large percentages in America don’t feel safe, they start asking: What am I paying my taxes for? What is government all about?

Charles Schumer

What we are going to do as Democrats is put together a really strong platform that focuses on jobs and economic issues.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Democracy Economics Focus Issues Job Platform Strong Togetherness
Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Hole Money Politics Soft System
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Economics Opportunity People Place Teaching Time Young
The highest priority you can have is education.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Education High Priority Yourself
We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don’t starve. Those are values, too.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Need Pay People Starve
You do have to change things as warfare changes.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Change Warfare Yourself
So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it’s a better education overall.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Children Education Myself Public School
Unfortunately, the administration’s plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Administration Planning Problem
But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Class Democracy Eyes Level Myself Thinking
I am deeply skeptical of trade deals in general.But the only way they can get a number of Democrats is by doing a strong real currency bill that goes after the worst of the trading partners, the one that`s stealing our high-end jobs.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Deal Democracy Job Number Oneself Partner Steal Trade Trading Worst
The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Class Decline Face Greatness Income Problem
In today’s competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Competition Death Economics Stand
If the Saudis were culpable, they should be held accountable. If they had nothing to do with 9/11, they have nothing to fear.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Accountability Culprit Fear Police
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
Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Close Democracy People
When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Phone Photograph Privacy

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