Charles Schumer Quotes

Candidates With Deeply Held Christian Beliefs Are Unfit and Disqualified From Serving As A Federal Judge.

When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.

Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.

We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!

The only way we're gonna work with Donald Trump is if he moves completely in our direction and abandons his Republican colleagues.

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

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

A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.

The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.

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

We're here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true.

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

Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.

I'm totally opposed to vouchers. I will fight them tooth and nail.

But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don't because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere.

Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments - the American people really don't care.

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.

Arafat was a barrier to peace.

I made education the highest priority of my campaign - actually education and jobs - and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.

It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.

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

America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.

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.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people's rights away.

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

We 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.

Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.

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

Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.

What we are going to do as Democrats is put together a really strong platform that focuses on jobs and economic issues.

If the Saudis were culpable, they should be held accountable. If they had nothing to do with 9/11, they have nothing to fear.

I 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.

When you run for president you have certain obligations. One of them would be to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.

I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.

An economic message, an economic platform unites the factory worker in Scranton, the young woman in Los Angeles struggling to pay her college debt and the single mom in Buffalo who's on minimum wage.

I want to attract the best people into teaching.

You do have to change things as warfare changes.

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?

The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.

When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets.

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

If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.

We can't have a Twitter president. This is serious stuff, this governing.

When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private.

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.

Our job is going to be to hold Donald Trump and the Republican majority accountable.

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

I'm going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.

The export market is based, on high-paying jobs. I've seen statistics that show that people make over 88 a year generally benefit from this because these are export jobs.