Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.
CHARLES SCHUMERIf 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.
More Charles Schumer Quotes
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America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
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When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private.
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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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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.
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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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I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
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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.
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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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In today’s competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
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Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
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Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
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The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.
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The Democratic Party was always there on crime, but in the past we let the ideologues on the left dominate. The Republicans may still let the ideologues on the right dominate.
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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?
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I’m going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.
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