Charles Schumer Last Quotations

The president called for a bipartisan commission on Social Security in his State of the Union address, which I recommended he do last year -- but if he were serious about it, he would have left Social Security privatization out of his budget.

If we do nothing and OPEC continues to constrict the supply of oil the average American will pay $1,000 more this year than they did last year out of their pockets,

I spoke last night to the family and they are beginning to get a little more optimistic, thank God. He's a great thinker, and we don't have too many of them who end up being politicians. We desperately need him. We desperately need his thoughts now.

We stand on the precipice of a constitutional crisis, ... Bill Pryor is the last of the four most controversial nominees.

At long last builders and insurers of major projects in large cities, particularly New York, can breathe a sigh of relief.

New York has been the springboard from which the last two successful Democratic candidates for president won the White House, ... There is no doubt in my mind that New York's good fortune can launch a Democrat into the White House for the third time in 30 years.

The echoes of then-Judge Thomas's empty reassurances that he was a mainstream jurist are ringing in the ears of every senator who listened to many nearly identical statements from Judge Roberts last week,

When was the last time that a covert agent's name was leaked, jeopardizing that agent's life, the life of that agent's network, of informants and the security of this country? ... This is not just another ordinary leak.