Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments – the American people really don’t care.
CHARLES SCHUMERWhether 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.
More Charles Schumer Quotes
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We’re going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We’re going to beat guns into submission!
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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’d like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.
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Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
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Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.
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What I want to do first with education is my student loan idea. Basically, if you go into teaching and teach for five years, your student loans should be forgiven. It doesn’t cost that much.
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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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When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
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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.
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In today’s competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
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People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
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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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Candidates With Deeply Held Christian Beliefs Are Unfit and Disqualified From Serving As A Federal Judge.
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I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
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Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
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