Chuck Schumer

Politician

1950-11-23

Books by Chuck Schumer

Positively American
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Antisemitism in America
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Quotes by Chuck Schumer

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.
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Mr. Snowden is a coward who has chosen to run.
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My father, Abe, was a small businessman. For 32 years, he ran an exterminating company. That may explain why our family always associated the smell of roach spray with love.
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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.
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To introduce a whole new tax regime, that would be modern tax reform. But that's too big a task.
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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.'
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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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We certainly want those at the top to do well, but if you base your entire presidency and your entire economic platform on helping them do even better, you're missing what makes the economy tick. Because not everyone has been as fortunate as Mitt Romney, you cannot base your whole approach on a life experience as rarified as his.
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Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights pacing the floor, like my dad did, while their children, tucked in bed, dream big dreams. Families who aren't sure what Monday morning will bring, but who believe our nation's best days are still ahead.
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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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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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Reclassification is the best way to for us to preserve the Internet as an unfettered tool for communication and the sharing of ideas.
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The Tea Party is a rear guard, not a vanguard.
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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.
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I'm totally opposed to vouchers. I will fight them tooth and nail.
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Mitt Romney would move the Court even further right, putting landmark decisions like Roe v. Wade at risk. Some say Romney would repeat the past. I disagree - he'd be worse.
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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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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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