Chuck Schumer

Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.

— Chuck Schumer

You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President.

— Chuck Schumer

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

This is an excellent program. Nobody has said it has done a bad job. It is small. There are only about 50,000 visas a year. ... As I ride my bike around New York City on the weekends, I see what immigrants do for America. This program has dramatically helped.

— Chuck Schumer

People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens, and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who entered the U.S. legally.

— Chuck Schumer

People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who enter the United States legally.

— Chuck Schumer

Assault weapons were designed for and should be used on our battlefields, not on our streets. There is no inalienable right to own and operate 100-round clips on AR-15 assault rifles.

— Chuck Schumer

President Trump turned away from not one but two bipartisan compromises. Each would have averted this shutdown....It is something the majority could have avoided entirely, a concern the president could have obivated, if he were only willing to take yes for an answer.

— Chuck Schumer

But there is only one way we will have a Trump shutdown: if President Trump clings to his position for an unnecessary, ineffective, taxpayer-funded border wall that he promised Mexico would pay for.

— Chuck Schumer

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

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

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

— Chuck Schumer

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

— Chuck Schumer

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

Reclassification is the best way to for us to preserve the Internet as an unfettered tool for communication and the sharing of ideas.

— Chuck Schumer

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