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You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President.

Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11.

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.

Well, the tough thing for them is that the Republican primary is pretty far over to the right, just as the Democratic primary is further over to the left than the average voter in each party.

Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure.

Charles Schumer

Failure

As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence.

Voters did say 'repeal health care,' they did say 'reduce the size of government.' But not a single one of them from the tea party or anywhere said 'give tax breaks to the wealthiest.'

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

Charles Schumer

Freedom

Giving

I'm totally opposed to vouchers. I will fight them tooth and nail.

Charles Schumer

Fight

Will

Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.

Arafat was a barrier to peace.

Charles Schumer

Peace

We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum.

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

Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.

Charles Schumer

People

Democrats

Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.