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.
CHARLES SCHUMERThe 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.
More Charles Schumer Quotes
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If 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.
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We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
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You do have to change things as warfare changes.
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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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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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The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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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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When a nominee doesn’t get 60 votes, you shouldn’t change the rules, you should change the nominee.
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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?
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All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.
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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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We’re here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true.
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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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I don’t think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It’s a waste of resources.
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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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