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" 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. "

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" Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble. "

Chuck Schumer

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms. "

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

" To introduce a whole new tax regime, that would be modern tax reform. But that's too big a task. "

" America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus. "

" 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. "

" You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President. "

" On foreign policy, President Obama has kept our nation safe from terrorism and restored our standing in the world. When it comes to one of our closest allies - Israel - President Obama has been resolute. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole. "

" Democrats don't relate to middle-class people. "

" Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all. "

" I think it's a little insulting, a bit insulting to American workers when Rand Paul says that unemployment insurance is a disservice. "

" Everyone has a hole inside themselves. They don't know they had it until they have kids, and then that hole fills up. And it's so great; it's just God's greatest gift to us. "

" Any party that writes off 25, 30, 35 percent of the American people is not going to be a winner. "

" 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. "

" Arafat was a barrier to peace. "

" 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. "

Chuck Schumer

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" When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets. We know Mitt Romney never met a tax haven he didn't like. But his new favorite tax haven is actually not the Cayman Islands - its Paul Ryan's budget. "

" I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company. "

" What the public hates the most is when they think the politicians aren't listening to them. They understand that we can't solve all their problems with a snap of our fingers, but they sure want us to try because we are public servants. "