Quote

Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.

Charles Schumer

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Charles Schumer
Gets
Trouble
Anyone
Truth
Way
Always
Thinking
Monopoly
World
Thinks

More quotes by Charles Schumer

Image
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
Image
I want to attract the best people into teaching.
Charles Schumer
Image
I am deeply skeptical of trade deals in general.But the only way they can get a number of Democrats is by doing a strong real currency bill that goes after the worst of the trading partners, the one that`s stealing our high-end jobs.
Charles Schumer
Image
When you run for president you have certain obligations. One of them would be to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.
Charles Schumer
Image
I'm still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people's lives better.
Charles Schumer
Image
You do have to change things as warfare changes.
Charles Schumer
Image
When you lose an election, you don't blink, you don't turn away. You look it right in the eye and say, why did we lose?
Charles Schumer
Image
I don't think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It's a waste of resources.
Charles Schumer
Image
If you talk privately to our tech companies, our pharmaceutical companies, our high-end manufacturing companies, the high end of America, where the good-paying jobs are, China is not letting them in unless China gets to steal their intellectual property in a company that`s 51 percent owned by the Chinese.
Charles Schumer
Image
What we are going to do as Democrats is put together a really strong platform that focuses on jobs and economic issues.
Charles Schumer
Image
The currency bill we have would finally do something for China`s rapacious policies.
Charles Schumer
Image
America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
Charles Schumer
Image
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.
Charles Schumer
Image
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
Image
The Democratic Party was always there on crime, but in the past we let the ideologues on the left dominate. The Republicans may still let the ideologues on the right dominate.
Charles Schumer
Image
The export market is based, on high-paying jobs. I`ve seen statistics that show that people make over 88 a year generally benefit from this because these are export jobs.
Charles Schumer
Image
The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
Charles Schumer
Image
We repeal sanctions, it tells Russia, go ahead and interfere in our elections and do bad things it tells China, it tells Iran. That would be terrible.
Charles Schumer
Image
Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
Charles Schumer
Image
I feel very strongly that we need to change the way we do trade because it has been one of the major factors that lead to decline of middle class incomes.
Charles Schumer