Menu

Free Literature Study Guides
The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

Free Literature Study Guides
The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

Chuck Schumer Quotes

I’d like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.

– Chuck Schumer

The Tea Party people are ideologues. They are right, and no one can change their minds. There is no reason for compromise.

– Chuck Schumer

The Internet in the 21st Century is as important to our future as highways were in the 20th Century. Like a highway, the Internet must remain free and open for all – not determined by the highest bidders.

– Chuck Schumer

America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.

– Chuck Schumer

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.

– Chuck Schumer

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

– Chuck Schumer

You do have to change things as warfare changes.

– Chuck Schumer

Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can’t. After all, Mitt Romney’s idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there.

– Chuck Schumer

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.

– Chuck Schumer

To those like Mitt Romney who want to take us backwards, let’s send a strong message in November: as we say in Brooklyn, ‘Fuhgeddaboutit.’

– Chuck Schumer

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.

– Chuck Schumer

Palestinians don’t really believe in a state of Israel. They, unlike a majority of Israelis, who have come to the conclusion that they can live with a two-state solution to be determined by the parties, the majority of Palestinians are still very reluctant, and they need to be pushed to get there.

– Chuck Schumer

It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.

– Chuck Schumer

You have to show Israel that it’s not going to be forced to do things it doesn’t want to do and can’t do.

– Chuck Schumer

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.

– Chuck Schumer

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.

– 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.

– Chuck Schumer

Reclassification is the best way to for us to preserve the Internet as an unfettered tool for communication and the sharing of ideas.

– Chuck Schumer

I told the President, I told Rahm Emanuel and others in the administration that I thought the policy they took to try to bring about negotiations is counter-productive, because when you give the Palestinians hope that the United States will do its negotiating for them, they are not going to sit down and talk.

– Chuck Schumer

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.’

– Chuck Schumer

There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can’t wait to go to work? And when you’re ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, ‘I can’t wait to go home?’

– Chuck Schumer

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.

– Chuck Schumer

The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair… As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol’s physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure.

– Chuck Schumer

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.

– Chuck Schumer

We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.

– Chuck Schumer

But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.

– Chuck Schumer

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

– Chuck Schumer

The bottom line is there are lots of problems that were not created by government. The biggest one is loss of middle class incomes, loss of good-paying jobs which was created by technology and globalization. Above all, when you can move a job to China or India, it reduces wages.

– Chuck Schumer

Every administration has this idea to talk tough to Israel and make nice to the Arabs and the Palestinians, and that’s the way to bring about peace. It’s counter-productive – it’s actually the opposite.

– Chuck Schumer

Have kids; have a lot of kids. Start early and keep having them.

– Chuck Schumer

- 1
- 2
- 3