Chuck Schumer actually said...

"My proposal was not curtailing the right to require tough votes."

"There are abuses on both sides, and we tend to focus on some and you tend to focus on others."

"Rather than accept the will of the voters who are rejecting the policies enacted by the 111th Congress, the senator from New Mexico and many of our colleagues on the other side simply want to abolish ..."

"the ability of a majority that has so many votes to run over the minority and not take their views into account."