Charles Schumer Quotes on People (21 Quotes)

The risk here isn't turning courtrooms into a circus or unduly invading someone's privacy. The risk is the danger we pose to our society and our democracy when we close off our institutions to the people they're supposed to serve.

And for some people, the proposal would benefit. But other people, the proposal would increase their taxes, because there's a cut-off. And if your home is worth about 200,000, and that's a lot of very middle-class homes in Western New York, you're stuck.

Let what we are doing be a beacon to the people of New Orleans. They should always know there is always hope, hope that is represented today by the rebuilding.

He will be the kind of president that our country deserves and our times demand. He will be the principled fighter for all the American people.

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.

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.

served his country with honor, dignity and distinction for over 30 years. He was grounded in his beliefs and was a staunch defender of an independent judiciary. People of all philosophies and viewpoints greatly respected Justice Rehnquist and will miss him.

The airlines had come to us and said, 'If everybody sues us, we'll go bankrupt.' The federal government stepped in to say, 'OK, we don't want the airlines to go bankrupt, but we want the people who need help to get help.' That's what happened here.

Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.

The proceedings turned briefly comical in one exchange with Schumer. It's as if I asked you what kind of movies you liked, and you say 'I like movies with good acting, I like movies with good cinematography,' ... I ask if you like 'Casablanca,' and you say 'Lots of people like 'Casablanca.'

I fully support the teaching and worship of Islam in the military, but I think it is common sense that the groups in charge of vetting people don't have links to terrorism and are fundamentally pluralistic,

If he's a mainstream conservative, if he doesn't use a court to impose his views on the American people, he's likely to get approved, If he is out of the mainstream and will use his tremendously powerful position as Supreme Court judge to impose his views on the American people, then there's a potential for a filibuster, and no one really knows that until the hearings.

We are going to assert ourselves, ... What has given us new vigor in this is we think the American people are on our side.

America stood with New York in its time of need and we will stand with the people of the Gulf states now that they need us,

People desperately want work. The best thing we can do is give them jobs by stimulating the economy in a real way. But until we do, it is our fundamental and solemn and important responsibility to at least let them live a life of dignity, maintain the pay

The U.S. Navy cannot, and should not, force the people of Puerto Rico to live in fear for their lives by continuing to use their island for target practice.

dagger to the heart of the people of New York.

It is sad that the president felt he had to pick a nominee likely to divide America instead of choosing a nominee in the mold of Sandra Day O'Connor, who would unify us. This controversial nominee, who would make the court less diverse and far more conservative, will get very careful scrutiny from the Senate and from the American people.

And I think a Barack Obama, a Bill Clinton, people who had success in these elections are Democrats who can talk in terms of values.

I've said to the people at the White House that you say you need all the resources to fight the war overseas, but to fight the war on terror at home with no money is like saying let's fight the war in Iraq with no new money, ... It makes no sense whatsoever.

The idea that Americans shouldn't know what the judicial philosophy of the nominee to this powerful, powerful position is, is wearing thin with the American people, whether they be liberal, conservative or moderate,