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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.

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
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Brave Enough Home Mistake Protection Security Simplicity World
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
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
I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Accountant Doctor Right Strong
Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Argument Crime People
Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people’s rights away.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Conservative People Right
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
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 SCHUMER

Death Myself Offense Support Thinking
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
When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Phone Photograph Privacy
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.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Experience Important Perspective President Reason Vision
I’m going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Call Focus Need People Politics
America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Compassionate People Place Togetherness
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
But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
CHARLES SCHUMER

Class Democracy Eyes Level Myself Thinking

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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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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