Charles E. Schumer Quotes

I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one.

The word of the president is a national asset not to be trifled with.

Any time you tell the president of the United States you're not there, is it difficult? I would say extremely difficult.

In addition to the executive responsibility of handling and managing the government, the president has an important voice that sets the tone for much of our national discourse.

I normally try to ignore presidential tweets.

Go back to - my first campaign for the United States Senate. I got a bunch of people now talking about inequality. But back then they sure weren't. Back then, folks were saying I was preaching class warfare. Now it's suddenly their campaign platform.

When a president speaks that usually means a lot.

One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.

To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers.

If Hillary Clinton is president of the United States, nothing is going to happen. It's just going to be talk.

I am president, I don't own the country so they are not my forces.

Ann Romney talking about middle class moms is like Chris Christie talking about a salad

I think the United States is currently a kind of wonder - wonderland with the president Trump speaking on subjects of his choice, some of which are entertaining, but none of which are very strategically substantive.

Liberals are hopping mad because Rush Limbaugh referred to phony soldiers as "phony soldiers." They claim he was accusing all Democrats in the military of being "phony." True, all Democrats in the military are not phony soldiers, but all phony soldiers seem to be Democrats.

Words matter when you run for president. And they really matter when you are president.

Presidents don't have a whole lot to say about prosperity or the economy. Government cannot create prosperity. There are a lot of other factors that determine whether there are good times or bad times.

I don't think it's so much Trump lobbing us for changes. It's us asking him for help in getting the changes done. I think Trump has the bully pulpit. He has a great deal of influence with the Republican Party on both the House and the Senate side. The bill right now to the conservative point of view doesn't have enough repeal. It looks like we're keeping a lot of Obamacare. So we actually think that there needs to be more repeal. That's the message I took to Trump.

Hillary Clinton calls our people deplorable, a large group, and irredeemable. I will be a president for all of our people.

Actually, I think we all understand just fine why Donald Trump is president: because he ran a racist, boorish, epically mendacious campaign and Republicans all decided to go along with it. And even that wouldn’t have been enough if Trump hadn’t gotten some additional help from his pals James Comey and Vladimir Putin.

President George] Bush talked to us like we were a bunch of morons and we ate it up. Can you imagine, the Pledge of Allegiance, read my lips-can you imagine such crap in this day and age?

I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had

The political process consists entirely of politicians talking out of their butts.

I think we're coming to a place where we're saying all war is wrong. We might even learn something about the sensationalism we get caught up in with people like Donald Trump.

There's a tendency for Americans, particularly the simpler you are, the more you believe in the president as the kind of person to be.