Home / Quotes / Quote by Charles Schumer

Quote by Charles Schumer

“I told the President, I told Rahm Emanuel and others in the administration that I thought the policy they took to try to bring about negotiations is counter-productive, because when you give the Palestinians hope that the United States will do its negotiating for them, they are not going to sit down and talk.”

Quote by Charles Schumer

Author

Charles Schumer

Charles Schumer is an American politician currently serving as the senior United States Senator from New York. He has been in office since 1999 and is a member of the Democratic Party. Schumer has been a prominent figure in the Senate, serving as the Majority Leader from 2007 to 2017 and as the Minority Leader from 2017 to 2021. more

You May Also Like

“Palestinians don't really believe in a state of Israel. They, unlike a majority of Israelis, who have come to the conclusion that they can live with a two-state solution to be determined by the parties, the majority of Palestinians are still very reluctant, and they need to be pushed to get there.”

Needs Believe Stills Two States Party Solutions Majority Israel Determined Conclusion Palestinian Reluctant

Author:Charles Schumer

“Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can't. After all, Mitt Romney's idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there.”

Trying Ideas Jobs Republican Weak Democrat Paint Defense Accomplishment Romney

Author:Charles Schumer

“The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure.”

Matter Serious Consequence Concern Plant Spending Administration Fallen Senate Committees Severe Funding Chairman Capitol Domes Omitting

Author:Charles Schumer

“When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets. We know Mitt Romney never met a tax haven he didn't like. But his new favorite tax haven is actually not the Cayman Islands - its Paul Ryan's budget.”

Knows Want Havens Mets Taxes Reform Code Budgets Islands Romney Wallets Cayman Islands

Author: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.”

Want Should Two States Facts Accepting Willing Majority Structure Palestinian Negotiation Jordan

Author:Charles Schumer

“Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.”

Values Expression Entrepreneur Profit Productions Entrepreneurship Enterprise Entrepreneurial Free Enterprise

Book:The Theory of Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle

Source: The Theory of Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle

“Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.”

Democracy Obstacles Inevitable Bureaucracy Rebellious Complement Government Bureaucracy

Book:Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

“Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.”

Social Interest Virtue Civilization Capitalism Logic Educate Unrest Vested Interests Social Unrest

Book:Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

“The ballot is stronger than bullets.”

Stronger Bullets Ballots

Author:Joseph A. Schumpeter

“Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political — legislative and administrative — decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.”

Ends Political Certain Decision Democracy Type Method Incapable Arrangements Arriving Administrative

Author:Joseph A. Schumpeter