If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.
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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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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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.
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But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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Unfortunately, the administration’s plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
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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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Democrats don’t relate to middle-class people.
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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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We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
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But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don’t because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere.
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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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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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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.
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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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So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it’s a better education overall.
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Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.
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