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

America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
- Charles Schumer Quote

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.
- Charles Schumer Quote

But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
- Charles Schumer Quote

Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.
- Charles Schumer Quote

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.
- Charles Schumer Quote

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.
- Charles Schumer Quote

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.
- Charles Schumer Quote

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
- Charles Schumer Quote

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

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

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.
- Charles Schumer Quote

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?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

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.
- Charles Schumer Quote

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
- Charles Schumer Quote

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

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.
- Charles Schumer Quote

We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
- Charles Schumer Quote

When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
- Charles Schumer Quote

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.
- Charles Schumer Quote

You do have to change things as warfare changes.
- Charles Schumer Quote