Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
Charles Ellis "Chuck" Schumeris an American politician, the senior United States Senator from New York and a member of the Democratic Party. First elected in 1998, he defeated three-term Republican incumbent Al D'Amato by a margin of 55%–44%. Schumer was re-elected in 2004 by a margin of 71%–24% and in 2010 by a margin of 66%–33%...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think what the president is trying to do here is thread the needle.
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The president has not sent us a nominee who has already hewed to the extreme wing of his party, ... that the views of the extreme right wing of his party aren't the views of the American people, or even close to it.
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The president called for a bipartisan commission on Social Security in his State of the Union address, which I recommended he do last year -- but if he were serious about it, he would have left Social Security privatization out of his budget.
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They have riled up their base, but to feed their base the red meat it demands will hurt the president with the general public,
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This is the time for a consensus nominee. I know that there will be people who will pressure the president from one side to have a nominee who is way over to that side, but I don't think that serves the president or America well.
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For four years, President Bush . . . had a lot of luck on his side, ... There's a yin and yang to this, a warp and woof, and it's all catching up, almost at the same time.
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I've called for a thorough house-cleaning in the vice president's office, but what they've done is just rearrange some office furniture, ... It is time for the president and vice president to bring in a new team of advisers who are above ethical reproach, like Reagan did in his second term, not stonewall like Nixon did during Watergate.
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The signal to President Bush, whether you voted no or yes: Please send us a moderate, but if you send someone who is very ideological there'll be a much bigger fight than on Roberts because this is for the O'Connor seat and that's the swing vote on the court.
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It was the very extreme wing of the president's party, and that brought about the withdrawal, ... If the president continues to listen to that extreme wing on judicial nominations or everything else, it can only spell trouble for his presidency and for America.
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You've just got to rely on the president to appoint good people,
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Why am I up here supporting this bill? Because I think we are in a new era . . . where every one of us has to give a little bit. We heard the president speak, we were unified yesterday, we must keep that unity.