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Chuck Schumer


American
November 23, 1950
Politician
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Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.


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I want to attract the best people into teaching.


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Wall Street excesses helped lead to the Great Recession.


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Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure.


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


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Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.
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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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Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
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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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So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.


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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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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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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.'
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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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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.
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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.
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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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To do health care was a noble, good thing, and it will help America dramatically. I don't begrudge Barack Obama choosing it, even though if I were president, I might not have.
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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.
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Today, families like the one I grew up in still believe in that American dream. But as President Obama says, it's a make-or-break moment for the middle class. Mitt Romney's plans would make things worse.
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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.
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The way to lessen the grip of the Tea Party on the electoral process would be to do what a handful have done and have a primary where all voters, members of every party, can vote, and the top two vote-getters then enter a runoff.
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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.
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Middle class people, I think they realize that Romney is not for them because of his narrowness, but they want to make sure that Barack Obama is focused on them with things that will make a difference. They know he tried, but they also know that it didn't do as well as they would have liked.
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