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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 /
Abe
Businessman
Ran
Smell
Spray
Love Family Always
Love Family Father
Associated
Explain
Roach
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To do health care was a noble, good thing, and it will help America dramatically. I don't begrudge Barack Obama choosing it, even though if I were president, I might not have.
Chuck Schumer /
Barack
Health Care
Noble
Obama
Barack Obama
Health Good Care
Choosing
Dramatically
Good Thing
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The Tea Party elites gained extraordinary influence by being able to funnel millions of undisclosed dollars into campaigns with ads that distort the truth and attack government.
Chuck Schumer /
Ads
Campaigns
Dollars
Elites
Extraordinary
Influence
Millions
Party
Tea Party
Attack
Distort
Gained
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The vast majority of the people employed by Wall Street are the secretary who goes in to work on the Long Island Rail Road, who makes fifty, sixty, seventy thousand dollars a year.
Chuck Schumer /
Dollars
Employed
Fifty
Long Island
Majority
Rail
Secretary
Sixty
Thousand
Wall
Work Long People
Vast
Street
Island
Seventy
Vast Majority
Wall Street
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Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that's not what any of us should want from our judges.
Chuck Schumer /
Bad News
Ideological
News
Bench
Interpret
Judges
Warriors
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Voters did say 'repeal health care', they did say 'reduce the size of government.' But not a single one of them from the tea party or anywhere said 'give tax breaks to the wealthiest.'
Chuck Schumer /
Health Care
Size
Tax Breaks
Voters
Tax
Health Government Care
Anywhere
Breaks
Reduce
Repeal
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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 /
Guy
Somebody
Side
Bring
Figure
Walk
Motivates
Onto
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Well, the tough thing for them is that the Republican primary is pretty far over to the right, just as the Democratic primary is further over to the left than the average voter in each party.
Chuck Schumer /
Average
Democratic
Party
Tough
Further
Primary
Voter
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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.
Chuck Schumer /
Great Power
Greater
Pray
Truth Hope Time
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There are some tax expenditures that are there for very obvious and very important and very good policy reasons. Whether it's the charitable deduction or the deduction for homes, it's not a loophole.
Chuck Schumer /
Charitable
Expenditures
Obvious
Policy
Tax
Deduction
Homes
Loophole
Reasons
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Every administration has this idea to talk tough to Israel and make nice to the Arabs and the Palestinians, and that's the way to bring about peace. It's counter-productive - it's actually the opposite.
Chuck Schumer /
Administration
Tough
Opposite
Arabs
Bring
Palestinians
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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 /
Allies
Closest
Foreign Policy
Policy
President Obama
Resolute
Safe
Standing
Terrorism
Obama
Restored
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Today, families like the one I grew up in still believe in that American dream. But as President Obama says, it's a make-or-break moment for the middle class. Mitt Romney's plans would make things worse.
Chuck Schumer /
Dream
American Dream
Class
Grew
Middle
Middle Class
Plans
President
President Obama
Romney
Obama
Mitt
Moment
Says
Worse
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The Internet in the 21st Century is as important to our future as highways were in the 20th Century. Like a highway, the Internet must remain free and open for all - not determined by the highest bidders.
Chuck Schumer /
Future
Determined
Internet
Free
Open
Highway
Remain
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The Tea Party elites believe government is evil. Everything about government is bad, and they blame all problems, even non-economic problems, problems that were caused by the private sector, on government.
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Blame
Elites
Evil
Private Sector
Tea Party
Caused
Private
Sector
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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.
Chuck Schumer /
Expediency
Oblivion
Path
Undoing
Life Love Path
Bit
Canyon
Creates
Persuade
Slow
River
Step
Tortured
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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.
Chuck Schumer /
Conservative
Democrat
President
Did
Both Parties
Liberal
Neither
Nor
Parties
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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 /
Average
Grassroots
Tea Party
Weakness
Brothers
Follower
Elite
Fundamental
Stark
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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 /
Code
Islands
Reform
Romney
Tax
Actually
Budget
Favorite
Hold
Haven
Met
Mitt
Mitt Romney
Paul
Ryan
Says
Tax Code
Wants
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The way to lessen the grip of the Tea Party on the electoral process would be to do what a handful have done and have a primary where all voters, members of every party, can vote, and the top two vote-getters then enter a runoff.
Chuck Schumer /
Electoral Process
Handful
Members
Tea Party
Vote
Voters
Electoral
Enter
Grip
Lessen
Primary
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What the public hates the most is when they think the politicians aren't listening to them. They understand that we can't solve all their problems with a snap of our fingers, but they sure want us to try because we are public servants.
Chuck Schumer /
Fingers
Public Servants
Solve
Politicians
Hates
Servants
Snap
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You can set up whatever negotiations or structure you want, but until the Palestinians are willing to accept the fact, as the majority of Israelis do, that there should be two states between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, we won't have peace.
Chuck Schumer /
Jordan
Majority
States
Structure
Willing
Accept
Set
Fact
Israelis
Mediterranean
Negotiations
Palestinians
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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.
Chuck Schumer /
Brave
Brave New World
Homeland
Homeland Security
New World
Omission
Terrorist
Brave World New
Mistakes
Attack
Protecting
Terrorist Attack
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There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can't wait to go to work? And when you're ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, 'I can't wait to go home?'
Chuck Schumer /
Home
Afternoon
Friday
Important
Monday
Monday Morning
Ready
Stomach
Two
Wake Up
Life Work Morning
Go Home
Wait
Pit
Test
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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.
Chuck Schumer /
Passion
Judge
Bench
Rare
Respect Law People
Except
Follow
Passionately
Serve
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I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.
Chuck Schumer /
Administration
Defense
Discussion
Offense
Our Generation
Regret
Terror
Basically
Close
Decade
Generation
Necessary
This Administration
Vital
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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 /
Government
Technology
Bottom
Bottom Line
China
Class
Globalization
Loss
Middle
Middle Class
Wages
Job
Above
Biggest
Created
Good-Paying
Incomes
Line
Problems
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Middle class people, I think they realize that Romney is not for them because of his narrowness, but they want to make sure that Barack Obama is focused on them with things that will make a difference. They know he tried, but they also know that it didn't do as well as they would have liked.
Chuck Schumer /
Barack
Class
Focused
Middle
Middle Class
Romney
People Will Know
Obama
Barack Obama
Liked
Make A Difference
Tried
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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 /
Bottom
Bottom Line
Romney
Self Interest
World Long People
Bank
Confuses
Mitt
Narrow
National Interest
Statement
Thinks
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When Republicans say, 'The first thing you do when you do deficit reduction is reduce rates,' it would be like Democrats saying, 'The first thing you do when you do deficit reduction is provide free Medicare at age 55.' We'd like to do that! But it won't bring the deficit down. That's for sure.
Chuck Schumer /
Age
Deficit
Medicare
Sure
Free
Bring
Deficit Reduction
Republicans
First Thing
Provide
Rates
Reduce
Saying
The First Thing
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The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure.
Chuck Schumer /
Administration
Capitol
Chairman
Fallen
Funding
Plant
Senate
Serious
Severe
Spending
Rules
Committee
Concerns
Dome
Matters
Measure
Physical
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Palestinians don't really believe in a state of Israel. They, unlike a majority of Israelis, who have come to the conclusion that they can live with a two-state solution to be determined by the parties, the majority of Palestinians are still very reluctant, and they need to be pushed to get there.
Chuck Schumer /
Conclusion
Determined
Majority
Reluctant
Unlike
Israelis
Palestinians
Parties
Solution
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I told the President, I told Rahm Emanuel and others in the administration that I thought the policy they took to try to bring about negotiations is counter-productive, because when you give the Palestinians hope that the United States will do its negotiating for them, they are not going to sit down and talk.
Chuck Schumer /
Administration
Negotiating
Policy
Palestinians
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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.
Chuck Schumer /
Amazing
Checks
Core
Crisis
Nuclear
Precipice
Republic
Temper
Vote
Time Your Way
Time Amazing Your
Balances
Checks And Balances
Constitutional
Option
Tantrum
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We certainly want those at the top to do well, but if you base your entire presidency and your entire economic platform on helping them do even better, you're missing what makes the economy tick. Because not everyone has been as fortunate as Mitt Romney, you cannot base your whole approach on a life experience as rarified as his.
Chuck Schumer /
Approach
Economic
Fortunate
Helping
Life Experience
Missing
Presidency
Romney
Tick
Life Experience Your
Life Experience Better
Base
Certainly
Entire
Mitt
Mitt Romney
Platform
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Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights pacing the floor, like my dad did, while their children, tucked in bed, dream big dreams. Families who aren't sure what Monday morning will bring, but who believe our nation's best days are still ahead.
Chuck Schumer /
Barack
Bed
Monday
Monday Morning
Pacing
Sunday
Ahead
Barack Obama
Nights
Dream Big
Floor
Tucked
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