Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

Chuck Schumer

Know

Greatest Gift

God

" As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence. "

Chuck Schumer

Long

Choice

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

" We certainly want those at the top to do well, but if you base your entire presidency and your entire economic platform on helping them do even better, you're missing what makes the economy tick. Because not everyone has been as fortunate as Mitt Romney, you cannot base your whole approach on a life experience as rarified as his. "

" 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.' "

" 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

People

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough. "

" When Republicans say, 'The first thing you do when you do deficit reduction is reduce rates,' it would be like Democrats saying, 'The first thing you do when you do deficit reduction is provide free Medicare at age 55.' We'd like to do that! But it won't bring the deficit down. That's for sure. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Economic conservatives like immigration reform, and in fact, many of them supported the bill that John McCain and I put together in the Senate. "

Chuck Schumer

Fact

Many

" Reclassification is the best way to for us to preserve the Internet as an unfettered tool for communication and the sharing of ideas. "

Chuck Schumer

Internet

Best

" Most of the people I meet who are on unemployment are people who have had jobs for 25 years, lost them; they've been knocking on doors every week. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I want to attract the best people into teaching. "

" 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. "

" You have to show Israel that it's not going to be forced to do things it doesn't want to do and can't do. "

" 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? "

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

" When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private. "