Charles Schumer
Candidates With Deeply Held Christian Beliefs Are Unfit and Disqualified From Serving As A Federal Judge.Collection: Christian
The only way we're gonna work with Donald Trump is if he moves completely in our direction and abandons his Republican colleagues.Collection: Moving
We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!Collection: Gun
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.Collection: New York
The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.Collection: Assault Weapons
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.Collection: Wall
[Barack] Obama administration, the [George W.]Bush administration have done nothing. And as China has manipulated its currency, we`ve lost trillions of dollars of wealth and millions of good-paying jobs.Collection: Jobs
This is government's primary function - to keep us safe - and when large percentages in America don't feel safe, they start asking: What am I paying my taxes for? What is government all about?Collection: America
We can't have a Twitter president. This is serious stuff, this governing.Collection: President
All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.Collection: Gun
I think, the left makes a mistake. If you look particularly at the state levels, violent repeat criminals are not punished enough. The average murderer is sentenced to 17 1/2 years but serves six. The average rapist is sentenced to 10 years but serves about three and a half. The average mugger is sentenced to five years and serves little more than one.Collection: Mistake
Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.Collection: People
What we are going to do as Democrats is put together a really strong platform that focuses on jobs and economic issues.Collection: Strong
We're here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true.Collection: Gun
I basically believe that until China stop stealing our intellectual property, and until they stop keeping our companies out that do good things, the amount we will gain from export jobs is minimized, and the amount we lose in middle class incomes is maximized.Collection: Jobs
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.Collection: Jobs
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.Collection: Government
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.Collection: Moving
Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people's rights away.Collection: Rights
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.Collection: Voting
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...Collection: Agreement
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.Collection: Giving
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.Collection: Class
Unfortunately, the administration's plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.Collection: Immigration
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.Collection: Teaching
When you run for president you have certain obligations. One of them would be to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Country
People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.Collection: Government
Crime can be a unifying argument - not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.Collection: People
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.Collection: New York
The companies move labor to the lowest-cost markets. And so I don`t - I used to support these agreements. In the Congress, I lost the AFL-CIO endorsement a few years because I supported them. But when middle class incomes are declining, these agreements don`t work well for America.Collection: Moving
The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.Collection: Class
I am deeply skeptical of trade deals in general.But the only way they can get a number of Democrats is by doing a strong real currency bill that goes after the worst of the trading partners, the one that`s stealing our high-end jobs.Collection: Strong
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.Collection: Guarantees That
If the Saudis were culpable, they should be held accountable. If they had nothing to do with 9/11, they have nothing to fear.Collection: Should
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.Collection: Mad Cow Disease
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.Collection: Thinking
In education, I'm going to try to find what works. One thing I want to do is improve the quality of teachers. There are a lot of people who want to go into teaching; it's fundamentally a very fulfilling profession. But people don't feel they have financial support. We pay starting teachers in particular too little to attract the quality people that we need. I want to make it easier for good people who want to go into teaching to do that.Collection: Teacher
When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.Collection: Differences
The public knows how many good things there are as part of the Affordable Care Act. The Republicans say they're going to repeal. They don't know what to replace it with.Collection: Care
I think there's going to be a lot of Americans who are really willing to be much more active than they were before, because they're worried about where Trump is headed.Collection: Thinking
The highest priority you can have is education.Collection: Priorities
An economic message, an economic platform unites the factory worker in Scranton, the young woman in Los Angeles struggling to pay her college debt and the single mom in Buffalo who's on minimum wage.Collection: Mom
Certainly any president - Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative - should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.Collection: Mind
When you lose an election, you don't blink, you don't turn away. You look it right in the eye and say, why did we lose?Collection: Eye
If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.Collection: Messages
The currency bill we have would finally do something for China`s rapacious policies.Collection: Bills
I think we could be at a tipping pointCollection: Gun
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.Collection: Moving
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.Collection: New York