The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
CHARLES SCHUMERLet me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments – the American people really don’t care.
More Charles Schumer Quotes
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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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Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people’s rights away.
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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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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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Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
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You do have to change things as warfare changes.
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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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I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
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If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.
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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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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.
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The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.
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All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.
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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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The only way we’re gonna work with Donald Trump is if he moves completely in our direction and abandons his Republican colleagues.
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The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.
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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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We’re here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true.
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Unfortunately, the administration’s plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
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What we are going to do as Democrats is put together a really strong platform that focuses on jobs and economic issues.
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The public knows how many good things there are as part of the Affordable Care Act. The Republicans say they’re going to repeal. They don’t know what to replace it with.
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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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America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
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Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
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Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
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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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