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 SCHUMERBigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.
More Charles Schumer Quotes
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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.
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Unfortunately, the administration’s plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
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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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I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.
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Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
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The highest priority you can have is education.
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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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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.
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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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So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it’s a better education overall.
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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 am deeply skeptical of trade deals in general.But the only way they can get a number of Democrats is by doing a strong real currency bill that goes after the worst of the trading partners, the one that`s stealing our high-end jobs.
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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 only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
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Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
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