Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
CHARLES SCHUMERSubstantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
CHARLES SCHUMERThe only way we’re gonna work with Donald Trump is if he moves completely in our direction and abandons his Republican colleagues.
CHARLES SCHUMERPeople are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
CHARLES SCHUMERI 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.
CHARLES SCHUMERI’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
CHARLES SCHUMERCrime can be a unifying argument – not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.
CHARLES SCHUMERYou do have to change things as warfare changes.
CHARLES SCHUMERI want to attract the best people into teaching.
CHARLES SCHUMERCertainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
CHARLES SCHUMERI’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 SCHUMERWhether 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.
CHARLES SCHUMERUnfortunately, the administration’s plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
CHARLES SCHUMERIt is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.
CHARLES SCHUMERWe need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don’t starve. Those are values, too.
CHARLES SCHUMERWhen 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?
CHARLES SCHUMERGiving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
CHARLES SCHUMER