I support the death penalty for the kingpin, the guy at the top, but I don’t think you should throw a drug offender in jail for five years, and let a mugger out after a year.
CHARLES SCHUMERI’m still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people’s lives better.
More Charles Schumer Quotes
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Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
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I’d like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.
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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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I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
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I want to attract the best people into teaching.
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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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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.
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I’m still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people’s lives better.
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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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The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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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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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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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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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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The currency bill we have would finally do something for China`s rapacious policies.
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