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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

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Action Greatness Mistake
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
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
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
Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
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Freedom Give Up Serious
I made education the highest priority of my campaign – actually education and jobs – and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Education Future Job Myself Priority Thinking
Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.
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Bigotry Excuse Explanation Poison
The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.
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Class Decline Face Greatness Income Problem
People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
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Angry Crime Government People
The highest priority you can have is education.
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Education High Priority Yourself
Certainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Brief Democracy Government Policy President
I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
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Accountant Doctor Right Strong
I feel very strongly that we need to change the way we do trade because it has been one of the major factors that lead to decline of middle class incomes.
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Change Factor Feeling Leadership Strong Way
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.
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Need Pay People Starve
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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Appearance Avoid Conflict Interest Obligation President Run Yourself
Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
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Argument Crime People
A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
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Comment Infrastructure Money War
I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
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Myself Profession Teaching Thinking
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
When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Answer Continue Oneself Success
Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
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Close Democracy People
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
If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Bold Message Strong Unity Yourself
I’m going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Call Focus Need People Politics
You do have to change things as warfare changes.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Change Warfare Yourself
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Death Myself Offense Support Thinking
Candidates With Deeply Held Christian Beliefs Are Unfit and Disqualified From Serving As A Federal Judge.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Candidate Judgement Religious Service

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