Quote

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

Charles Schumer

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Charles Schumer
Early
Failure
Call
Wells
Well
Think
Thinking

More quotes by Charles Schumer

Image
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
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
I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
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
We can't have a Twitter president. This is serious stuff, this governing.
Charles Schumer
Image
Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
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
An economic message, an economic platform unites the factory worker in Scranton, the young woman in Los Angeles struggling to pay her college debt and the single mom in Buffalo who's on minimum wage.
Charles Schumer
Image
The companies move labor to the lowest-cost markets. And so I don`t - I used to support these agreements. In the Congress, I lost the AFL-CIO endorsement a few years because I supported them. But when middle class incomes are declining, these agreements don`t work well for America.
Charles Schumer
Image
This bill [Immigration Reform and Control act of 1986] is a gamble, a riverboat gamble. There is no guarantee that employer sanctions will work or that amnesty will work. We are headed into uncharted waters.
Charles Schumer
Image
Unfortunately, the administration's plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
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
Biking through New York's boroughs in 2005, I thought about some old friends, Joe and Eileen Bailey. Though they are imaginary, I frequently talk to them.
Charles Schumer
Image
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
Image
When a nominee doesn't get 60 votes, you shouldn't change the rules, you should change the nominee.
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
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
I'm not sure we will have every single Democrat ... but we want a large number of Republicans to be able to vote for this bill because we think that will encourage the House not only to move forward but to pass a bill.
Charles Schumer
Image
Certainly any president - Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative - should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
Charles Schumer
Image
Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.
Charles Schumer