Chuck Schumer Quotes

Chuck Schumer

Profession : Politician

Birth : November 23, 1950

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.

Chuck Schumer

Mr. Snowden is a coward who has chosen to run.

Chuck Schumer

To introduce a whole new tax regime, that would be modern tax reform. But that's too big a task.

Chuck Schumer

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.

Chuck Schumer

Economic conservatives like immigration reform, and in fact, many of them supported the bill that John McCain and I put together in the Senate.

Chuck Schumer

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.

Chuck Schumer

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.

Chuck Schumer

Mitt Romney's only bottom line is the one at the end of his own bank statement. The problem is that he confuses his own narrow, self-interest - and that of people like him - with the national interest. He thinks as long as we do right by the Mitt Romneys of the world, America will be just fine.

Chuck Schumer

The fundamental weakness in the Tea Party machine is the stark difference between what the leaders of the Tea Party elite - plutocrats like the Koch Brothers -want and what the average grassroots Tea Party follower wants.

Chuck Schumer

I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.

Chuck Schumer

I'm totally opposed to vouchers. I will fight them tooth and nail.

Chuck Schumer

You have to walk in the other guy's moccasins. You have to think what they think. If you want to bring somebody onto your side, you have to figure out what motivates them. What do they need?

Chuck Schumer

I want to attract the best people into teaching.

Chuck Schumer

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

Chuck Schumer

I think it's a little insulting, a bit insulting to American workers when Rand Paul says that unemployment insurance is a disservice.

Chuck Schumer

You have to show Israel that it's not going to be forced to do things it doesn't want to do and can't do.

Chuck Schumer

The bottom line is there are lots of problems that were not created by government. The biggest one is loss of middle class incomes, loss of good-paying jobs which was created by technology and globalization. Above all, when you can move a job to China or India, it reduces wages.

Chuck Schumer

Arafat was a barrier to peace.

Chuck Schumer

You do have to change things as warfare changes.

Chuck Schumer

There are very close ties between the Jewish and Mormon people.

Chuck Schumer