Charles E. Schumer

sometimes maybe for the stock market and maybe for the economy, lower interest rates are better than lower taxes.

I have a bent that regulation, if it is not heavy-handed, has been good for the markets.

By taking this oil off the market, the government has reduced supplies and driven the costs further up.

Many of us, on this side of the aisle, have basically supported free trade, not exclusively, but basically.

If an American company, an international company has an instantaneous ability to hire someone in India who is asking for $20,000 and does the job that an American gets $100,000 for, we have new trouble.

This calls for reexamination of those classical models.

As I travel all across my State I hear one question, one fear, one concern--jobs.

You will have $50 to $100 million over the next decade, well-educated, well-motivated Chinese and Indians, who are PhD's, who are college graduates who can compete for high-end jobs.

I am troubled by the new trends. I do not think they are the same as the old trends.

When people question whether free trade is still the way to go, usually, economists and editorial boards say, 'You are being protectionist.'

An improvement in the productive capability of a trading partner that allows it to compete effectively with a home country industry, instead of benefitting the public as a whole, may come at the expense of the home country overall.

I do not know a solution here, to be honest with you, but do you disagree with the view that the basic changes in the last 5 years perhaps should cause us to reexamine the classical theory of free trade, which is when each country…

It gives me some faith that we will get to the bottom of this dastardly act and prosecute the people who did it.

These delays are unacceptable, and I strongly support the legislation proposed by Senator Grassley and Senator Murkowski.

The resolution, S. Con. Res. 14/H. Con. Res. 242, calls on the Saudi government to reform its education curriculum.

There ought to be a full investigation, an independent counsel, without any of these bottlenecks.

The attorney general is so inextricably locked up with the people he's investigating, he can't do a fair job.

There is a clear conflict of interest for the Justice Department.

What the heck is going on here? This is the Pentagon, not the INS.

That a man who ends up as chaplain to potentially the most dangerous terrorists we have in our custody, was trained by groups who might well have a link to terrorism, almost defies the imagination.

The two groups that certify Muslim clerics to become military chaplains are themselves being investigated for terrorism connections.

the explicit cooperation of the Saudi regime with Wahhabi

I think that, in fact, the three of us here are probably the three Senators who have most cared about the issue of the spreading Wahhabi danger in the world and America.

I hope Secretary Powell and others will make it clear to the Saudi royal family that if it does not end its awful deal with the extreme Wahhabi clerics, it is going to end up ending its relationship with the United States.

What can you tell us about Prince Turki al-Faisal, his support for bin Laden and Al-Qaeda?