Words matter. These are the best Chuck Schumer Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
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.
Arafat was a barrier to peace.
The Tea Party people are ideologues. They are right, and no one can change their minds. There is no reason for compromise.
You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President.
Mr. Snowden is a coward who has chosen to run.
Well, the tough thing for them is that the Republican primary is pretty far over to the right, just as the Democratic primary is further over to the left than the average voter in each party.
To do health care was a noble, good thing, and it will help America dramatically. I don’t begrudge Barack Obama choosing it, even though if I were president, I might not have.
I think it’s a little insulting, a bit insulting to American workers when Rand Paul says that unemployment insurance is a disservice.
Well, I think it’s too early to call Fallujah a failure.
Economic conservatives like immigration reform, and in fact, many of them supported the bill that John McCain and I put together in the Senate.
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.
Everyone has a hole inside themselves. They don’t know they had it until they have kids, and then that hole fills up. And it’s so great; it’s just God’s greatest gift to us.
Have kids; have a lot of kids. Start early and keep having them.
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.
Most of the people I meet who are on unemployment are people who have had jobs for 25 years, lost them; they’ve been knocking on doors every week.
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.’
The vast majority of the people employed by Wall Street are the secretary who goes in to work on the Long Island Rail Road, who makes fifty, sixty, seventy thousand dollars a year.
Every administration has this idea to talk tough to Israel and make nice to the Arabs and the Palestinians, and that’s the way to bring about peace. It’s counter-productive – it’s actually the opposite.
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 both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11.
Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.
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?’
Democrats don’t relate to middle-class people.
What the public hates the most is when they think the politicians aren’t listening to them. They understand that we can’t solve all their problems with a snap of our fingers, but they sure want us to try because we are public servants.
America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
Working with the media remains an effective and essential way to raise issues, educate the public, and prod policy-makers and corporate leaders to change for the better.
Voters did say ‘repeal health care’, they did say ‘reduce the size of government.’ But not a single one of them from the tea party or anywhere said ‘give tax breaks to the wealthiest.’
Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
I want to attract the best people into teaching.
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.
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.
The Tea Party elites gained extraordinary influence by being able to funnel millions of undisclosed dollars into campaigns with ads that distort the truth and attack government.
I’m strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
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.
We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
You have to walk in the other guy’s moccasins. You have to think what they think. If you want to bring somebody onto your side, you have to figure out what motivates them. What do they need?
When Republicans say, ‘The first thing you do when you do deficit reduction is reduce rates,’ it would be like Democrats saying, ‘The first thing you do when you do deficit reduction is provide free Medicare at age 55.’ We’d like to do that! But it won’t bring the deficit down. That’s for sure.
But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
Reclassification is the best way to for us to preserve the Internet as an unfettered tool for communication and the sharing of ideas.
When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
There are very close ties between the Jewish and Mormon people.
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.
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 class. Mitt Romney’s plans would make things worse.
I’m totally opposed to vouchers. I will fight them tooth and nail.
Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
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.
The bottom line is there are lots of problems that were not created by government. The biggest one is loss of middle class incomes, loss of good-paying jobs which was created by technology and globalization. Above all, when you can move a job to China or India, it reduces wages.
It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.
I’d like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.
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.
