Charles Schumer Quotes (257 Quotes)


    We can take a few days out to mourn Justice Rehnquist. He was a towering figure in the judiciary,

    My wife and I stay up late at night trying to figure out how we'll send our daughters to college,

    You'll answer only as many questions as necessary to get confirmed. It's not the right thing to do.

    If other cows with mad cow disease were slaughtered, we wouldn't know where to begin looking for people who might have been affected, ... With a comprehensive tracking system, we would.

    If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?


    It's become perfectly clear that the big oil companies are cashing in while average American families are being bled dry,

    This house, where I've lived for 20 years with three other Congress members doesn't have any computer hook-up,

    There is a clear conflict of interest for the Justice Department,

    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.

    Today's revelation that the government listened in on thousands of phone conversations without getting a warrant is shocking and has greatly influenced my vote. Today's revelation makes it very clear that we have to be very careful. Very careful.

    I hope we rise to the occasion. To have Wyoming get 38.31 per capita, while New York gets only 5.47 per capita, doesn't look like a formula based on threat, but looks like a formula based on politics, to me.

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

    If there ever was a time when the hearings are going to make a huge difference, it's now,

    His President George W. Bush two greatest priorities are permanent tax cuts and Social Security. And somehow just by coincidence the real bite of those programs, which make the deficit even worse than it is, don't occur until 2009, starting when the president leaves office.

    This modification puts a stranglehold on the Brady law, it sets a 24-hour time limit for gun-show sale background checks,

    I think Democrats understand we have a great opportunity, ... We've gotten much better at blocking some of the bad things the Republicans would do, but we know you can't be a party of long-term majorities unless you put forward the things you would do.

    It's hard to believe that this administration would be so out of touch with the American people's national security concerns that it would use its first ever veto to save this troubling Dubai ports deal.

    has an obligation to answer tough questions from the committee about whether his views have changed and whether he would advance a particular ideological position that is contrary to decades of legal precedent.

    At the hearings, I gave Judge Roberts every opportunity to distance himself from Justice Thomas's most extreme views, ... He refused.

    it would cost power plants about 3 billion to clean up. It's estimated that the costs of the pollution in the air to New York are 60 billion in terms of all of the loss and corrosion and everything else that occurs.

    Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure.

    I hope he is not a Thomas. But the risk is too great to bear, ... The court's balance may for decades be tipped radically in one direction.

    The U.S. has also received general information regarding possible suicide bombings like those seen in Israel and persistent reports of attacks on airports.

    If you held the vote today, she would not get a majority either in the Judiciary Committee or the floor, ... there are one or two who said they'd support her as of now.

    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.

    The truth is it's high time for a top to bottom review,

    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.

    This is the best thing that can be done, short of new laws ... given the deadlock in Congress.

    The president now should take his time. The president should do it right slowly, deliberately, carefully, with real consultation and real consensus.

    If he John Roberts is a Miguel Estrada and just refuses abjectly to answer everything, it would make a filibuster more likely,

    Judge Roberts has a clear obligation to make his views known fully and completely.

    of course, want to do business with gun manufacturers who are doing more to keep guns out of the hands of criminals.

    When an agency becomes as large and bureaucratic as they are, there's trouble, ... This Week.

    At long last builders and insurers of major projects in large cities, particularly New York, can breathe a sigh of relief. Terrorism insurance will be renewed.


    The time in history, and Sandra Day O'Connor's removal, means the focus on real questions will be greater than it has ever been, because she was a swing nominee at a time of a divided court and a divided country.

    We are sending a signal to the world that our financial markets will be protected. That our country will be able to bounce back in the event of any disruptions or financial dislocation caused by another possible terrorist attack.

    The sad fact is, if 500 random people around the world, with some leadership, were injected with an evil virus and they were to decide, fanatically, they would devote the next 5 years of their lives to figuring out how to hurt America and try to implement it, the odds are too high that they could succeed.

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

    The fact that DHS is planning to take at least two years to develop a missile defense prototype to outfit the U.S. commercial fleet verges on the dangerous,

    The problem is that we are involved, not in an head-on head war, which was the first three weeks, but rather in a guerrilla war.

    Is he an agenda-driven ideologue who will impose his views on the American people or is he a mainstream, albeit conservative, mainstream jurist,

    Nothing could be further from the truth, ... This is about his record.

    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.

    The leaking of the name of a CIA operative is a dastardly act. It not only endangers the name of an agent who has put his or her life on the line for America, but also all their operatives and security ... It's a despicable thing to do. And some newspapers report that it was the White House that did it.

    As we approach the hearings, rather than feel confident that we will hear candid answers to critical questions about judicial philosophy, I am concerned that the stage is being set for Judge Roberts to refuse to answer,

    Part of the president's job is to make sure his staff obeys the laws and he should make sure that anyone indicted in this dastardly outing of a covert operative is immediately dismissed from the White House,

    Nothing is on the table and nothing is off the table. Let's learn what we can about Judge Scalia,

    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.

    The Chinese and the administration should be under no misapprehension, ... If there is no movement, we will push our legislation.


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