Charles E. Schumer Quotes

Republicans are the party of the rich. The Democrats are the party of the people.

The Democratic Party has become the party of the coastal elite, and the Republican Party is the party of the working class and that average American citizen who's been struggling over the past eight years with Obama in the White House.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

The truth is that beginning in the 1970s, the heart of our Democratic party, America's strong striving middle class, began drifting away from us.

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

I love the Upper West Side. I walk down the street all the time and am stopped by Democrats. I don't think they've ever actually met a Republican before.

The most biased people are the Democrats.

My mother was a Democrat - southern Democrat, y'all.

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.

I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.

You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.

We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

I've got Democratic skin, but a Republican pocket.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans...unless they have too much education and vote Democratic

The Democrats have failed to have a real robust message for working-class people in places like Ohio - these states that Donald Trump came in and won.

Unlike the Tory millionaires, I live in the heart of the proud working-class community of the Bogside in Derry.

I ended up working on over 150 political campaigns in 42 states; over a third of those were for Republicans. I want to be clear about that. Approximately two-thirds were for Democrats, so, I worked on both sides of the aisle, across the United States.

What we ended up with, from Bill Clinton onward, is a status quo party and an 'undo the system' party, where the Democrats became the status quo party and the Republicans became the 'undo the system' party.

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a Democrat, than have you oppose both.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

I was a Clinton Democrat for twenty years.

I'm a growth-is-good Democrat.

Obama is a guy who claims to be unaware that there was a Tea Party, a guy that's detached from the country.