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.
Charles Schumer

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?
Charles Schumer

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.
Charles Schumer

In today's competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
Charles Schumer

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
Charles Schumer

It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.
Charles Schumer

Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments - the American people really don't care.
Charles Schumer

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.
Charles Schumer

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

We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.
Charles Schumer

We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
Charles Schumer

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

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.
Charles Schumer

When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
Charles Schumer

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

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.
Charles Schumer

You do have to change things as warfare changes.
Charles Schumer