Charles Schumer Quotes

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• We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are…
• The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.
• I made education the highest priority of my campaign - actually education and jobs - and the reason is a simple one: I think the…
• Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that's…
• If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what…
• I am not saying I will vote against John Ashcroft because he is pro-life, .. But let me say if someone was nominated for attorney…
• Democratic Rep. Charles Schumer of New York made a plea to Livingston, the incoming speaker. These new hearings, these new subpoenas wave a red flag…
• If other cows with mad cow disease were slaughtered, we wouldn't know where to begin looking for people who might have been affected, .. With…
• In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security,…
• Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people's rights away.
• I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
• Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
• Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
• Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights…
• Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step,…
• Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.
• I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
• When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private.
• 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…
• A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.

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