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 SCHUMERI’m going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.
More Charles Schumer Quotes
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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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A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
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Democrats don’t relate to middle-class people.
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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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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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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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I feel very strongly that we need to change the way we do trade because it has been one of the major factors that lead to decline of middle class incomes.
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You do have to change things as warfare changes.
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I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.
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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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So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it’s a better education overall.
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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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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.
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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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