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 SCHUMERSubstantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.
More Charles Schumer Quotes
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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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As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence.
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America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
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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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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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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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The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.
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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 still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people’s lives better.
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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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When a nominee doesn’t get 60 votes, you shouldn’t change the rules, you should change the nominee.
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I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.
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I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
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When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
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When you run for president you have certain obligations. One of them would be to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.
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