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" Have kids; have a lot of kids. Start early and keep having them. "
Chuck Schumer
Having
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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. "
Chuck Schumer
Bad
Judges
Law
" I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me. "
Chuck Schumer
Me
Were
Schools
" You have to walk in the other guy's moccasins. You have to think what they think. If you want to bring somebody onto your side, you have to figure out what motivates them. What do they need? "
Chuck Schumer
Want
You
Bring
" 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. "
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Best
Morning
Children
" America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus. "
Chuck Schumer
Consensus
Place
Together
" Working with the media remains an effective and essential way to raise issues, educate the public, and prod policy-makers and corporate leaders to change for the better. "
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Media
Way
Working
" The Tea Party elites believe government is evil. Everything about government is bad, and they blame all problems, even non-economic problems, problems that were caused by the private sector, on government. "
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Evil
Tea
Government
" Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all. "
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Inaction
Perhaps
Mistake
" Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do. "
Chuck Schumer
Giving Up
Giving
Freedom
" I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants. "
Chuck Schumer
Medical
Made
Decisions
" Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments - the American people really don't care. "
Chuck Schumer
Care
Me
People
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Chuck Schumer
Make A Difference
Think
Know
" 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
Say
You
Vote
" Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations. "
Chuck Schumer
Always
Poison
Excuses
" 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
Remember
Defense
Time
" 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
" If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say? "
Chuck Schumer
Soldiers
Convention
Others
" The fundamental weakness in the Tea Party machine is the stark difference between what the leaders of the Tea Party elite - plutocrats like the Koch Brothers -want and what the average grassroots Tea Party follower wants. "
Chuck Schumer
Tea
Weakness
Want
" I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary. "
Chuck Schumer
Regret
War
Win
" 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. "
Chuck Schumer
Great
Hope
Time
" The 2014 election was not a repudiation of government in general. "
Chuck Schumer
Election
Government
General
" To introduce a whole new tax regime, that would be modern tax reform. But that's too big a task. "
Chuck Schumer
Task
Reform
Tax
" You do have to change things as warfare changes. "
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Change
You
Warfare
" We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too. "
Chuck Schumer
Values
Need
People
" 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
Test
Work
Life
" 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
People
Go
Opportunities
" 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
" There are some tax expenditures that are there for very obvious and very important and very good policy reasons. Whether it's the charitable deduction or the deduction for homes, it's not a loophole. "
Chuck Schumer
Obvious
Tax
Policy