Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
CHARLES SCHUMERSoft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
More Charles Schumer Quotes
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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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Certainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
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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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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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I’m still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people’s lives better.
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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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When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.
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The public knows how many good things there are as part of the Affordable Care Act. The Republicans say they’re going to repeal. They don’t know what to replace it with.
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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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If the Saudis were culpable, they should be held accountable. If they had nothing to do with 9/11, they have nothing to fear.
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No one believed [the 1986 amnesty for illegal aliens] was tough enough on illegal immigration, and it didn’t give enough flexibility on future legal immigration.
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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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Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
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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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Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
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