Chuck Schumer Quotes (35 Quotes)

You give the impression of being a meticulous legal navigator, but, in the end, you always seem to chart a rightward course.

If he is a Rehnquist, that would not be a cause for exultation in my book, but it would not be a cause for alarm. The court's balance will not be altered. But there is a reasonable danger that he will be like Justice Thomas, the most radical justice on the Supreme Court. It is not that I am certain that he will be a Thomas, it's not even that it's more than 50 percent, but the risk that he might be a Thomas and the lack of any reassurance that he won't, particularly in light of this president's professed desire to nominate people in that mold, is just not good enough. I hope he will not be a Justice Thomas but the risk is too great to bear.

He told me that he hoped that he could persuade me to win his vote over. And I said I hoped he could too, because we'd all prefer a harmonious process,

if need be, take the vice president to the wood shed.

A far more muscular use of the SPR is what is needed at a time when oil is over 70 a barrel.

To those who say ideology doesn't matter, they should take their argument to President Bush.

I think it makes a good deal of sense for us to take time, catch our breath, and take a few days out.

Okay, known to vote for Republicans, ... compounding the crime, so to speak, because they were political and now they're trying in an 'Alice in Wonderland' way to accuse the ambassador and his wife of being political.

The real question for President Bush is going to be is he going to be like Nixon hunker down, get into the bunker, admit no mistakes, ... or like Reagan, who actually admitted mistakes, did a midcourse correction and brought in new people, bipartisan people, people above ethical reproach, into the White House.

Truth be told, though our economy operates in the Information Age, our power grid functions more like something from the Stone Age, ... We must act to change this now in the energy bill that is before the Congress.

I take her at her word, but I certainly would like to know more about these phone conversations,

If ever there was a time that cried out for consensus, the time is now.

You've devoted your entire life to the law and it's clear that you love it,

The administration's lack of action today hurts all Americans by refusing to acknowledge the obvious - that China manipulates its currency.

This administration made mistakes, the previous administration made mistakes. But the inability of this administration and of the national security adviser to admit that mistakes were made makes us fear that we will make future mistakes.

I'm going to give her a break, ... Clearly she needs time to learn about these cases.

This nomination certainly raises the stakes in making sure that the American people and the Senate know Judge Roberts' views fully before he assumes perhaps the second most powerful position in the Unites States.

How was it we were so far behind the curve that it was almost laughable. It just makes my jaw drop to think that on 911 or 910 the kind of technology that is available to most school kids and certainly every small business in this country, why isn't it available to the FBI

Yesterday the election was a shot across the bow to George Bush,

The Chinese manipulate their currency and the administration should not have ducked the issue,

You couldn't ask for somebody to do more in Washington than the mayor does . . . I think the mayor has done a good job. I make no bones about that.

It's no secret that the manufacturing industry has been getting killed.

We don't expect it to go the whole way ... but it has to start on the path of going the whole way,

The president realizes that the views of the extreme right wing of his party are not the views of the American people, ... And for the second time in a row, he's sent us a nominee who we really don't know that much about.

Do they consider it the right thing to do to reach out to the middle, or do they sort of batten down the hatches and firm up the hard base on the other side

There will certainly be more concern and scrutiny for Sandra Day O'Connor's seat,

We understand we have to plug new loopholes, but that doesn't mean we have to unplug the old ones.

Big Oil behemoths are making out like bandits, while the average American family is getting killed by high gas prices, and soon-to-be-record heating oil prices.

This is not a game of 'gotcha.' This is a game to figure out how somebody thinks and what their judicial philosophy is and what their method legal reasoning is, ... He doesn't have to answer every one of those questions to get an idea. But I don't think it would be very helpful if he said, 'I can't answer any of them.'

If you refuse to talk about already decided cases, the burden sir, is on you,

The door outside this room doesn't say, check your views out the door. So your failure to answer questions is confounding me. You've done it in instance, after instance, after instance, after instance.

The Bush administration, with its doctrinal commitment to unfettered deregulation, has insisted that this situation can be resolved by allowing the states and utility industry to deal with it by themselves,

I know that a location has already been chosen for every Super Bowl until 2007, but New York has suffered the devastating economic impact of September 11, both on behalf of the entire nation and worse than any other city in the nation.

I appreciate attempts by Secretary (Bill) Richardson to cajole OPEC into increasing production, but it hasn't worked and it's time for the United States to play a little hardball,

We've had mistake after mistake after mistake, ... Face the Nation.