More - Chuck Schumer Quotes

I think his confirmation is hardly a done deal. I think lots of us are going to look at the hearings and look at what he says to us about what kind of attorney general he will be. He is far and away the most troubling of all the choices,

Chuck Schumer

 Confirmation

The Chinese manipulate their currency and the administration should not have ducked the issue,

Chuck Schumer

 

If he is a Rehnquist, that would not be a cause for exultation in my book, but it would not be a cause for alarm. The court's balance will not be altered. But there is a reasonable danger that he will be like Justice Thomas, the most radical justice on the Supreme Court. It is not that I am certain that he will be a Thomas, it's not even that it's more than 50 percent, but the risk that he might be a Thomas and the lack of any reassurance that he won't, particularly in light of this president's professed desire to nominate people in that mold, is just not good enough. I hope he will not be a Justice Thomas but the risk is too great to bear.

Chuck Schumer

 Books And Reading

I for one have woken up in the middle of the night thinking about it, wondering how I should vote, ... This is a vote over the chief justice of the Supreme Court ... this isn't just rolling the dice, it's betting the whole house.

Chuck Schumer

 

You give the impression of being a meticulous legal navigator, but, in the end, you always seem to chart a rightward course.

Chuck Schumer

 

The administration's lack of action today hurts all Americans by refusing to acknowledge the obvious - that China manipulates its currency.

Chuck Schumer

 

How was it we were so far behind the curve that it was almost laughable. It just makes my jaw drop to think that on 9/11 or 9/10 the kind of technology that is available to most school kids and certainly every small business in this country, why isn't it available to the FBI?

Chuck Schumer

 

The president realizes that the views of the extreme right wing of his party are not the views of the American people, ... And for the second time in a row, he's sent us a nominee who we really don't know that much about.

Chuck Schumer

 

office buildings are our factories. They are at the center of economic growth and job creation.

Chuck Schumer

 

It is sad that the president felt he had to pick a nominee likely to divide Americans instead of choosing a nominee in the mold of Sandra Day O'Connor, who would unify us,

Chuck Schumer