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When a nominee doesn’t get 60 votes, you shouldn’t change the rules, you should change the nominee.

Charles Schumer

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?
CHARLES SCHUMER

Feeling Function Government Myself Pay Primary Safety
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Economics Opportunity People Place Teaching Time Young
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 SCHUMER

Believe Enough Future Legal Oneself Tough
Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Close Democracy People
When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Phone Photograph Privacy
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Education Future Job Myself Priority Thinking
If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Bold Message Strong Unity Yourself
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Economics Message Money Pay Struggle Woman Young
Certainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Brief Democracy Government Policy President
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Deal Democracy Job Number Oneself Partner Steal Trade Trading Worst
When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Difference President Start Talk
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Accomplishment Democracy Ideas Job Paint Time Try
I’d like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Care Health Insurance Myself Professional
If the Saudis were culpable, they should be held accountable. If they had nothing to do with 9/11, they have nothing to fear.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Accountability Culprit Fear Police
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Democracy Encouragement Home Move Myself Thinking Vote
I’m still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people’s lives better.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Better Ideal Live People Translation

When a nominee doesn’t get 60 votes, you shouldn’t change the rules, you should change the nominee.

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