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 SCHUMERAmerica is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
More Charles Schumer Quotes
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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?
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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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The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.
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When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
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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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When a nominee doesn’t get 60 votes, you shouldn’t change the rules, you should change the nominee.
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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 made education the highest priority of my campaign – actually education and jobs – and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.
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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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I want to attract the best people into teaching.
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If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.
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I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
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America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
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Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.
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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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