Charles Schumer Quotes

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

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• As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence.

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

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• 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.

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• Democrats don’t relate to middle-class people.

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

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• I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.

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• 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, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.

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• 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.

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• 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. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.

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• I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

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

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• I want to attract the best people into teaching.

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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.

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

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

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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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• Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

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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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