Charles Schumer Quotes

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• We've come to a basic agreement, which is that first, people will be legalized. In other words, not citizens, but they'll be allowed to work,…
• 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.
• Unfortunately, the administration's plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
• Our borders are much too porous...We want to keep them open, but we also have to be much more careful. ...Right now, if you get…
• This bill [Immigration Reform and Control act of 1986] is a gamble, a riverboat gamble. There is no guarantee that employer sanctions will work or…
• I think on this issue more than any other we're going to see sort of a bipartisan longing to get something done, and hopefully you're…
• 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…
• All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.
• We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!
• We're here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true...
• I think we could be at a tipping point
• I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench.…
• You know, my name .... comes from the word shomer, guardian, watcher. My ancestors were guardians of the ghetto wall in Chortkov. And I believe…
• Biking through New York's boroughs in 2005, I thought about some old friends, Joe and Eileen Bailey. Though they are imaginary, I frequently talk to…
• There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective…
• Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments - the American people…
• Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
• We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
• Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure.
• When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.

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