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" A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure. "
Chuck Schumer
War
Been
Infrastructure
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" Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love. "
Chuck Schumer
Step
Life
Love
" The Tea Party people are ideologues. They are right, and no one can change their minds. There is no reason for compromise. "
Chuck Schumer
Tea
People
Party
" 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
Care
Health
Tea
" Arafat was a barrier to peace. "
Chuck Schumer
Peace
Arafat
Barrier
" 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
Right
Average
Party
" The 2014 election was not a repudiation of government in general. "
Chuck Schumer
Election
Government
General
" 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
You
Try
Thought
" 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. "
Chuck Schumer
Help
Health
Good
" 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. "
Chuck Schumer
Way
Tea
Vote
" Have kids; have a lot of kids. Start early and keep having them. "
Chuck Schumer
Having
Start
Lot
" Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights pacing the floor, like my dad did, while their children, tucked in bed, dream big dreams. Families who aren't sure what Monday morning will bring, but who believe our nation's best days are still ahead. "
Chuck Schumer
Best
Morning
Children
" I want to attract the best people into teaching. "
Chuck Schumer
Want
People
Teaching
" I'm totally opposed to vouchers. I will fight them tooth and nail. "
Chuck Schumer
Them
Nail
Fight
" Mitt Romney's only bottom line is the one at the end of his own bank statement. The problem is that he confuses his own narrow, self-interest - and that of people like him - with the national interest. He thinks as long as we do right by the Mitt Romneys of the world, America will be just fine. "
Chuck Schumer
World
End
America
" 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
Government
Problems
Technology
" I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me. "
Chuck Schumer
Me
Were
Schools
" Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure. "
Chuck Schumer
Early
Well
Too
" I made education the highest priority of my campaign - actually education and jobs - and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it. "
Chuck Schumer
Think
Education
Future
" 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
Vision
Experience
Perspective
" 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
Israel
Live
Need
" Any party that writes off 25, 30, 35 percent of the American people is not going to be a winner. "
Chuck Schumer
Party
People
Going
" When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private. "
Chuck Schumer
Cell Phone
Just
Phone
" We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms. "
Chuck Schumer
Party
Legislative
Talk
" Democrats don't relate to middle-class people. "
Chuck Schumer
People
Democrats
Relate
" Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole. "
Chuck Schumer
Will
Find
Political
" 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
Risk
Say
Past
" Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11. "
Chuck Schumer
Nor
Republican
You
" 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
Paint
Accomplishment
Always
" I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession. "
Chuck Schumer
Teaching
I Think
Teacher
" My father, Abe, was a small businessman. For 32 years, he ran an exterminating company. That may explain why our family always associated the smell of roach spray with love. "
Chuck Schumer
Small
Father
Love