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Charles Schumer
American
Politician
About the author
I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#Decisions
#Rights
#Doctors
I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#professionals
#Decisions
#Care
#Health
#Company
I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#Public
#Schools
I want to attract the best people into teaching.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#Want
#People
#Teaching
I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#Teaching
#Profession
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.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#People
#Ability
#Law
#Respect
#Passion
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.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#Reason
#Education
#Future
#Jobs
#America
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.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#War
#Defense
#Terror
#Regret
America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#America
A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#War
#Money
#Iraq
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,
American
Politician
#Life
#Love
#Road
#Arguments
#Expediency
Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#People
#Democrats
But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#Eye
#Class
#Party
#Middle class
We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#Time
#Vote
#Temper
#Crisis
Arafat was a barrier to peace.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#Peace
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,
American
Politician
#World
#Trouble
#Truth
I'm totally opposed to vouchers. I will fight them tooth and nail.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#Will
#Fight
Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#Freedom
#Giving
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.'
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#Government
#Tax
#Party
#Care
#Health
#Tea
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.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#People
#Israel
#School
#Choice
Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#Failure
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.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#Right
#Pretty
#Republican
#Party
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,
American
Politician
#Want
#Peace
#states
#Fact
#Majority
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.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#Right
#President
#Conservative
#Republican
#Liberal
You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#President
#Government
#Senate
You do have to change things as warfare changes.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#Change
Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#Will
#Money
We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#People
#Poor
#Values
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.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#Want
#Right
#Law
#Judges
#News
So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#Want
#Kids
#Public
#Education
#Schools
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.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#People
#American
#Class
#Care
It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#Time
#Honor
#Liberty
#Defense
#Americans
Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#Mistake
#Inaction
In today's competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#Today
#Economy
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.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#Security
#World
#Mistakes
#Nation
#Post
If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#Soldiers
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,
American
Politician
#Time
#Right
#Now
#Hope
#Will
#Power
#Wrong
#Truth
We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#Talk
#Party
#Democrats
When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#Success
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.
Charles Schumer,
American
Politician
#People
#Teaching