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" When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private. "
Chuck Schumer
Cell Phone
Just
Phone
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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. "
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World
See
Always
" So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall. "
Chuck Schumer
Better
Kids
Want
" 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. "
Chuck Schumer
Terrorism
World
Nation
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Chuck Schumer
Moment
American
Today
" 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
" 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
" We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms. "
Chuck Schumer
Party
Legislative
Talk
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Chuck Schumer
Free
You
Age
" 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
" 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
" America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus. "
Chuck Schumer
Consensus
Place
Together
" 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
" 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
" I think it's a little insulting, a bit insulting to American workers when Rand Paul says that unemployment insurance is a disservice. "
Chuck Schumer
American
Think
Unemployment
" I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it. "
Chuck Schumer
People
Judge
Law
" 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. "
Chuck Schumer
Think
Politicians
Listening
" The vast majority of the people employed by Wall Street are the secretary who goes in to work on the Long Island Rail Road, who makes fifty, sixty, seventy thousand dollars a year. "
Chuck Schumer
Street
Road
Work
" 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. "
Chuck Schumer
New
Tax
Never
" The 2014 election was not a repudiation of government in general. "
Chuck Schumer
Election
Government
General
" 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
Want
You
Accept
" 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
" 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
" Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do. "
Chuck Schumer
Giving Up
Giving
Freedom
" 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