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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

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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Brave Enough Home Mistake Protection Security Simplicity World
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
The only way we’re gonna work with Donald Trump is if he moves completely in our direction and abandons his Republican colleagues.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Abandonment Complete Direction Himself Move Work
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
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Accomplishment Democracy Ideas Job Paint Time Try
Candidates With Deeply Held Christian Beliefs Are Unfit and Disqualified From Serving As A Federal Judge.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Candidate Judgement Religious Service
Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Freedom Give Up Serious
Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Conservation Democracy Liberty Party President Right Yourself
If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Bold Message Strong Unity Yourself
The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Class Decline Face Greatness Income Problem
I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Myself Profession Teaching Thinking
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
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?
CHARLES SCHUMER

Election Eyes Face Lose Right 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’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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Democracy Encouragement Home Move Myself Thinking Vote
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Experience Important Perspective President Reason Vision

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