Charles Schumer Quotes

• [Barack] Obama administration, the [George W.]Bush administration have done nothing. And as China has manipulated its currency, we`ve lost trillions of dollars of wealth and millions of good-paying jobs.

  Charles Schumer

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• 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 that common sense and common wisdom are not welcome here, .. Mr. Livingston, this may be the first and most important task you will ever face as speaker. Lead us out of this abyss.

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• Unfortunately, the administration's plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.

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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.

  Charles Schumer

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

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• The NRA is weakening but the opposing forces are stronger. A member of Congress has and still does pay a price for voting against the NRA. But now a member pays a price for voting with the NRA, too. In many districts, the price is higher when a member votes with the NRA than against the NRA. The public is outraged.

  Charles Schumer

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• 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 a comprehensive tracking system, we would.

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• The currency bill we have would finally do something for China`s rapacious policies.

  Charles Schumer

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• 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 not what any of us should want from our judges.

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• The highest priority you can have is education.

  Charles Schumer

  Source: www.questia.com

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• Palestinians don't really believe in a state of Israel. They, unlike a majority of Israelis, who have come to the conclusion that they can live with a two-state solution to be determined by the parties, the majority of Palestinians are still very reluctant, and they need to be pushed to get there.

  Charles Schumer

  "Schumer: Obama's 'counter-productive' Israel policy 'has to stop'" by Ben Smith, www.politico.com. April 22, 2010.

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• We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.

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• I'm still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people's lives better.

  Charles Schumer

  Source: www.questia.com

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• I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.

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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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• There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can't wait to go to work? And when you're ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, 'I can't wait to go home?'

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• If you talk privately to our tech companies, our pharmaceutical companies, our high-end manufacturing companies, the high end of America, where the good-paying jobs are, China is not letting them in unless China gets to steal their intellectual property in a company that`s 51 percent owned by the Chinese.

  Charles Schumer

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.

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• But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.

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• Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.

  Charles Schumer

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Certainly any president - Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative - should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.

  Charles Schumer

  "New Democratic Senate Leader Vows To Hold 'Donald Trump's Feet To The Fire'". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. January 6, 2017.

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• 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, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.

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• 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 is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.

  Charles Schumer

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• Donald Trump, when he gives his speeches, talks like a populist. And he talks to middle class and working America and poor people. But when he governs, at least in his first 40 days, he governs like a hard-right guy.

  Charles Schumer

  "After Speech To Congress, Trump Holds Meeting With GOP Leaders". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, Audie Cornish, wxxinews.org. March 1, 2017.

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• You can set up whatever negotiations or structure you want, but until the Palestinians are willing to accept the fact, as the majority of Israelis do, that there should be two states between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, we won't have peace.

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• 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 them.

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• We repeal sanctions, it tells Russia, go ahead and interfere in our elections and do bad things; it tells China, it tells Iran. That would be terrible.

  Charles Schumer

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

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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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• This is government's primary function - to keep us safe - and when large percentages in America don't feel safe, they start asking: What am I paying my taxes for? What is government all about?

  Charles Schumer

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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