Charles Schumer Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.”
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“When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.”
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“All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.”
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“Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.”
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“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.”
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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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“You know, my name .... comes from the word shomer, guardian, watcher. My ancestors were guardians of the ghetto wall in Chortkov. And I believe Hashem [Orthodox for God] actually gave me that name. One of my roles, very important in the United States senate, is to be a shomer -- to be a or the shomer Yisrael. And I will continue to be that with every bone in my body ...”
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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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“We're here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true...”
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“We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!”
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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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“I think on this issue more than any other we're going to see sort of a bipartisan longing to get something done, and hopefully you're not going to find the fisticuffs that you would find on lots of other issues. I think you'll be able to glean a sense of progress without us revealing the specifics.”
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“This bill [Immigration Reform and Control act of 1986] is a gamble, a riverboat gamble. There is no guarantee that employer sanctions will work or that amnesty will work. We are headed into uncharted waters.”
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“Our borders are much too porous...We want to keep them open, but we also have to be much more careful. ...Right now, if you get on an airplane [to the U.S.] and claim asylum...when you arrive at Kennedy Airport in New York, they will say to you, 'OK, we'll give you a hearing on whether you deserve asylum. Show up in a year.' And two-thirds of the people never show up.”
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“Unfortunately, the administration's plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.”
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“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.”
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“Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.”
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“Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.”
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“When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold onto your wallets.”
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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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“Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people's rights away.”
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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 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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“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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“I am not saying I will vote against John Ashcroft because he is pro-life, .. But let me say if someone was nominated for attorney general who was vehemently pro choice -- who in his or her career spent decades trying to find ways to expand the law abortion at nine months would be perfectly legal -- wouldn't you be more upset and raise more of a voice than against a nominee who was simply pro-choice?.”
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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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“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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“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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“The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.”
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