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I’m still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people’s lives better.

Charles Schumer

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
So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it’s a better education overall.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Children Education Myself Public School
When a nominee doesn’t get 60 votes, you shouldn’t change the rules, you should change the nominee.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Candidate Change Fair Government Rule Vote Yourself
I’m going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Call Focus Need People Politics
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
I think there’s going to be a lot of Americans who are really willing to be much more active than they were before, because they’re worried about where Trump is headed.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Active Direction Head Myself Willing Worry
The export market is based, on high-paying jobs. I`ve seen statistics that show that people make over 88 a year generally benefit from this because these are export jobs.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Job Marketing Myself Pay
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
Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Argument Crime People
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
When you run for president you have certain obligations. One of them would be to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Appearance Avoid Conflict Interest Obligation President Run Yourself
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Crime Democracy Domination Past
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Bad Ideology Judgement Law Ourselves Warrior
A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
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Comment Infrastructure Money War
Democrats don’t relate to middle-class people.
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Class Democracy People
We’re here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true.
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Dreams Night Talk True
When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
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Difference President Start Talk
I don’t think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It’s a waste of resources.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Myself Resource Thinking Time Wasted
I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Education Greatness Myself Public School
Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
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Freedom Give Up Serious
Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Bigotry Excuse Explanation Poison
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?
CHARLES SCHUMER

Election Eyes Face Lose Right Yourself
The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Murder People Weapon
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Conservation Democracy Liberty Party President Right Yourself
We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
CHARLES SCHUMER

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

Phone Photograph Privacy
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

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