When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
CHARLES SCHUMERI don’t think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It’s a waste of resources.
More Charles Schumer Quotes
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Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that’s not what any of us should want from our judges.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Certainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
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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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So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it’s a better education overall.
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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.
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A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
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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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Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
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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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Unfortunately, the administration’s plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
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We’re going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We’re going to beat guns into submission!
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