Quotes By Charles Schumer

Arafat was a barrier to peace.

My father, Abe, was a small businessman. For 32 years, he ran an exterminating company. That may explain why our family always associated the smell of roach spray with love.

When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private.

But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don't because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere.

Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.

I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.

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.

A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.

In today's competitive economy, to stand still is to die.

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

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.

I made education the highest priority of my campaign - actually education and jobs - and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

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

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.

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.

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.

You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President.

In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.

I want to attract the best people into teaching.

You do have to change things as warfare changes.

It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.

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.

We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum.

America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.

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

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.