Charles Schumer Quotes

I think Donald Trump is trying to use populist rhetoric to cover up a right-wing agenda.

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.

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?

The Democratic Party was always there on crime, but in the past we let the ideologues on the left dominate. The Republicans may still let the ideologues on the right dominate.

Crime can be a unifying argument - not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.

The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.

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.

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.

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.

People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.

When a nominee doesn't get 60 votes, you shouldn't change the rules, you should change the nominee.

I support the death penalty for the kingpin, the guy at the top, but I don't think you should throw a drug offender in jail for five years, and let a mugger out after a year.

I don't think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It's a waste of resources.

In today's competitive economy, to stand still is to die.

When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.

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.

The highest priority you can have is education.

I'm still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people's lives better.

We repeal sanctions, it tells Russia, go ahead and interfere in our elections and do bad things; it tells China, it tells Iran. That would be terrible.

I think we could be at a tipping point

Unfortunately, the administration's plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

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.