Charles Schumer Quotes

• When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets. We know Mitt Romney never met a tax haven he didn’t like. But his new favorite tax haven is actually not the Cayman Islands – its Paul Ryan’s budget.

  Charles Schumer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reform

• We certainly want those at the top to do well, but if you base your entire presidency and your entire economic platform on helping them do even better, you’re missing what makes the economy tick. Because not everyone has been as fortunate as Mitt Romney, you cannot base your whole approach on a life experience as rarified as his.

  Charles Schumer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Platform, Missing

• Today, families like the one I grew up in still believe in that American dream. But as President Obama says, it’s a make-or-break moment for the middle classc. Mitt Romney’s plans would make things worse.

  Charles Schumer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Middle Class, Worse

• 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 and vision.

  Charles Schumer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reasons, Romney

• The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair… As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol’s physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure.

  Charles Schumer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Committee, Serious

• 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.

  Charles Schumer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Weak, Defense

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Solution, Reluctant

• On foreign policy, President Obama has kept our nation safe from terrorism and restored our standing in the world. When it comes to one of our closest allies – Israel – President Obama has been resolute.

  Charles Schumer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Resolute, Closest

• Mitt Romney’s only bottom line is the one at the end of his own bank statement. The problem is that he confuses his own narrow, self-interest – and that of people like him – with the national interest. He thinks as long as we do right by the Mitt Romneys of the world, America will be just fine.

  Charles Schumer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Confuses, Statement

• My father, Abe, was a small businessman. For 32 years, he ran an exterminating company. That may explain why our family always associated the smell of roach spray with love.

  Charles Schumer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Businessman, Smell

• Mitt Romney would move the Court even further right, putting landmark decisions like Roe v. Wade at risk. Some say Romney would repeat the past. I disagree – he’d be worse.

  Charles Schumer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Disagree, Repeat

• Middle class people, I think they realize that Romney is not for them because of his narrowness, but they want to make sure that Barack Obama is focused on them with things that will make a difference. They know he tried, but they also know that it didn’t do as well as they would have liked.

  Charles Schumer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Romney, Realize

• I told the President, I told Rahm Emanuel and others in the administration that I thought the policy they took to try to bring about negotiations is counter-productive, because when you give the Palestinians hope that the United States will do its negotiating for them, they are not going to sit down and talk.

  Charles Schumer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Negotiating, Palestinians

• You have to show Israel that it’s not going to be forced to do things it doesn’t want to do and can’t do.

  Charles Schumer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Forced, Israel

• To those like Mitt Romney who want to take us backwards, let’s send a strong message in November: as we say in Brooklyn, ‘Fuhgeddaboutit.’

  Charles Schumer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Message, Strong

• 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 pacing the floor, like my dad did, while their children, tucked in bed, dream big dreams. Families who aren’t sure what Monday morning will bring, but who believe our nation’s best days are still ahead.

  Charles Schumer

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Dreams, Nights

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

  Charles Schumer

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Trouble, Anyone

• I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

  Charles Schumer

  Topics in Decisions

  Tags in Medical, Strongly

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

  Charles Schumer

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Spend, War

• Arafat was a barrier to peace.

  Charles Schumer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Peace, Barrier

Charles Schumer (56)

Birth:	23rd November, 1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Charles Ellis "Chuck" Schumer was born in Brooklyn, New York City. He is an American politician. He is the senior United States Senator from New York and a member of the Democratic Party. Before his election to the U.S. Senate, Schumer served in the US House of Representatives from 1981 to 1999, representing New York's 16th congressional district. A native of Brooklyn and graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, he was a three-term member of the New York State Assembly, serving from 1975 to 1980.

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