Quote

I support the death penalty for the kingpin, the guy at the top, but I don't think you should throw a drug offender in jail for five years, and let a mugger out after a year.

Charles Schumer

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Charles Schumer
Guy
Offender
Year
Offenders
Five
Penalty
Death
Penalties
Years
Jail
Think
Throw
Thinking
Drug
Mugger
Support
Muggers

More quotes by 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
The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.
Charles Schumer
Image
Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people's rights away.
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
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
We can't have a Twitter president. This is serious stuff, this governing.
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
Certainly any president - Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative - should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
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
When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
Charles Schumer
Image
Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
Charles Schumer
Image
Candidates With Deeply Held Christian Beliefs Are Unfit and Disqualified From Serving As A Federal Judge.
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
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
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?'
Charles Schumer
Image
America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
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
President Trump ought to realize, he's not campaigning anymore. He's president. And instead of talking about how many people showed up at his inauguration, he ought to be talking about how many people are going to stay into the middle class and move into the middle class.
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