Famous Charles Schumer Quotes

You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President.
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I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.
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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.
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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.
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I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
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Arafat was a barrier to peace.
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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.
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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.
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I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
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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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