In today’s competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
CHARLES SCHUMERSo I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it’s a better education overall.
More Charles Schumer Quotes
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We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
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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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People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
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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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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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Crime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
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I don’t think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It’s a waste of resources.
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As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence.
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The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.
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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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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.
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I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.
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You do have to change things as warfare changes.
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When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
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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.
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