Charles Schumer citáty

Charles Ellis „Chuck“ Schumer je americký politik za Demokratickou stranu USA. Od roku 1999 působí v Senátu USA jako tzv. senior senator za stát New York. 16. listopadu 2016 byl zvolen lídrem demokratické menšiny v Senátu a nastoupil do tohoto úřadu 3. ledna 2017.

Než se stal senátorem, působil Schumer od roku 1981 do roku 1999 jako poslanec Sněmovny reprezentantů USA za 9. okrsek státu New York. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. listopad 1950
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“People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who enter the United States legally.”

Speech on immigration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdL2k8jbnAs (24 June 2009), quoted in "Schumer talks tough on immigration reform issue" https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/schumer-talks-tough-on-immigration-reform-issue-1.1868825 by Tom Brune, Newsday.com (18 April 2010)

“This is an excellent program. Nobody has said it has done a bad job. It is small. There are only about 50,000 visas a year. … As I ride my bike around New York City on the weekends, I see what immigrants do for America. This program has dramatically helped.”

Floor speech in the Senate https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4689088/schumer-visa-program (24 May 2006) celebrating the diversity visa program, as reported and quoted in "Schumer on Diversity Visa: 'This is an Excellent Program'" http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/01/schumer-champions-diversity-visa-excellent-program/ by Neil Munro, Breitbart.com (1 November 2017)

“Assault weapons were designed for and should be used on our battlefields, not on our streets. There is no inalienable right to own and operate 100-round clips on AR-15 assault rifles.”

At the introduction of the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 ([Feinstein floats assault weapons ban, Ginger, Gibson, January 24, 2013, September 6, 2018, Politico, https://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/dianne-feinstein-assault-weapons-ban-086684]).

“President Trump turned away from not one but two bipartisan compromises. Each would have averted this shutdown…. It is something the majority could have avoided entirely, a concern the president could have obivated, if he were only willing to take yes for an answer.”

Zdroj: Floor speech to the Senate https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/22/politics/senate-shutdown-vote-congress/index.html?CNNPolitics=Tw (22 January 2018) on the bipartisan agreement in the senate to end the government shutdown, quoted at ABC 10 News https://www.10news.com/news/u-s-world/live-blog-federal-government-shutdown-january-2018?page=2

“If one political party believes "heads we win, tails you cheated," if one political party believes that when you lose an election, the answer isn't to win more votes, but rather to try to prevent the other side from voting, then we have serious and existential threats to our democracy on our hands.”

interview reported on March 20, 2021
Zdroj: GOP warns HR 1 could be 'absolutely devastating for Republicans', Karson, Kendall and Meg Cunningham, 20 March 2021, abcnews.go.com, ABC News, 20 March 2021 https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/gop-warns-hr-absolutely-devastating-republicans/story?id=76555647,

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