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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

When you run for president you have certain obligations. One of them would be to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Appearance Avoid Conflict Interest Obligation President Run Yourself
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’d like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Care Health Insurance Myself Professional
I’m still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people’s lives better.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Better Ideal Live People Translation
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
When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Difference President Start Talk
An economic message, an economic platform unites the factory worker in Scranton, the young woman in Los Angeles struggling to pay her college debt and the single mom in Buffalo who’s on minimum wage.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Economics Message Money Pay Struggle Woman Young
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Believe Enough Future Legal Oneself Tough
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
Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people’s rights away.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Conservative People Right
I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Education Greatness Myself Public School
America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Compassionate People Place Togetherness
Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Action Greatness Mistake
We’re going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We’re going to beat guns into submission!
CHARLES SCHUMER

Legislative Submission Weapon
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

Feeling Function Government Myself Pay Primary Safety
Certainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Brief Democracy Government Policy President

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?

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