Charles Schumer Quotes - Page 2

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

  Charles Schumer

  Giving Up, Serious Things, Things To Do

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• If you talk privately to our tech companies, our pharmaceutical companies, our high-end manufacturing companies, the high end of America, where the good-paying jobs are, China is not letting them in unless China gets to steal their intellectual property in a company that`s 51 percent owned by the Chinese.

  Charles Schumer

  Jobs, America, Intellectual

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• You do have to change things as warfare changes.

  Charles Schumer

  Warfare, Things Change

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• The thing I'd want people to say about me is that, in some way, I helped bring the Senate and the Congress back to what it used to be, the people's branch of government, doing things that made a difference in people's lives. I have devoted my life to government.

  Charles Schumer

  Government, Differences, People

  Source: www.questia.com

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• President Trump ought to realize, he's not campaigning anymore. He's president. And instead of talking about how many people showed up at his inauguration, he ought to be talking about how many people are going to stay into the middle class and move into the middle class.

  Charles Schumer

  Moving, Talking, Class

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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

  Charles Schumer

  Rights, People, Conservation

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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.

  Charles Schumer

  America, Poison, No Excuses

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• The NRA is weakening but the opposing forces are stronger. A member of Congress has and still does pay a price for voting against the NRA. But now a member pays a price for voting with the NRA, too. In many districts, the price is higher when a member votes with the NRA than against the NRA. The public is outraged.

  Charles Schumer

  Voting, Stronger, Pay

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• We've come to a basic agreement, which is that first, people will be legalized. In other words, not citizens, but they’ll be allowed to work, come out of the shadows, travel. Then, we will make sure the border is secure. And we have specific metrics that are in the bill. I’m not going to get into what they are...

  Charles Schumer

  Agreement, People, Shadow

  "TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads" by Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2013.

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• Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

  Charles Schumer

  Mistake, Inaction

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• No one believed [the 1986 amnesty for illegal aliens] was tough enough on illegal immigration, and it didn't give enough flexibility on future legal immigration.

  Charles Schumer

  Giving, Immigration, Amnesty

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• 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.

  Charles Schumer

  Class, Income, Needs

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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

  Charles Schumer

  War, Iraq, Infrastructure

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

  Charles Schumer

  Fighting, Teeth, Nails

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

  Charles Schumer

  School, Public School

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• Unfortunately, the administration's plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.

  Charles Schumer

  Immigration, Administration, Pounds

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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.

  Charles Schumer

  Rivers, Way, Path

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

  Charles Schumer

  Squash, Political, Way

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• What I want to do first with education is my student loan idea. Basically, if you go into teaching and teach for five years, your student loans should be forgiven. It doesn't cost that much.

  Charles Schumer

  Teaching, Years, Ideas

  Source: www.questia.com

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

  Charles Schumer

  Running, President, Would Be

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• When I started to get involved in the crime issue, people said, "it's a local issue." I said, "No, there are lots of ways the federal government can help." And the best way the federal government can help, and did in the Crime Bill, is to find programs that work around the country and help them spread.

  Charles Schumer

  Country, Issues, Government

  Source: www.questia.com

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• 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.

  Charles Schumer

  Two, Majority, Want

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• People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.

  Charles Schumer

  Government, People, Crime

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• Crime can be a unifying argument - not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.

  Charles Schumer

  People, Use, Argument

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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.

  Charles Schumer

  Needs, Praying, Great Power

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