Chuck Schumer

I know that you will be a brilliant Secretary of State.

I will sorely miss you. But, I wish you the best of luck.

Hillary, you've dedicated your career to improving the lives of the least fortunate.

Hillary has demonstrated the equanimity, the prudence, the fortitude that have made her an exceptional leader and public servant.

The world is yearning for strong, but consultative, American leadership in foreign policy.

I am confident that there is no one--no one who would better serve our country and the world as the next Secretary of State.

Judge Sotomayor puts the rule of law above everything else. Judge Sotomayor has hewed carefully to the text of statutes, even when doing so results in rulings that go against so-called sympathetic litigants.

If her name were Caroline Jones, you're saying, she wouldn't have as good a chance.

There clearly are victims here, and there clearly are violations of the law without question.

So people are entitled to their own opinions, as Pat Moynihan would say, but they are not entitled to their own facts.

The overwhelming majority of predatory subprime loans were made by lenders and brokers who were not, I repeat were not, subject to CRA.

Let's look at the facts, or as Pat Moynihan used to say, 'Everyone's entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts.'

At the risk of stating the obvious, it is worth noting that at the height of the housing boom, the President and his supporters in and out of Government did nothing to criticize or stop predatory lending.

We do not need an injection of presidential politics into this. These issues are complicated.

The windfall profits tax part of this bill, which I helped write, is a different windfall profits tax. It says when the level of profitability is very high, take that money and require that it be used for alternative energy. That is not…

The quickest short-term answer to the problem would be for the Saudis to increase production. They have cut back. They talk a good game. We see pictures of President Bush arm in arm with the Saudi leader, the Saudi King, yet we get nothing…

Today, we are looking at an economy on the verge of recession. Many economists would say it is already in recession. The economic hits to middle-class American families just keep on coming and coming. In the last week alone, we have…

Is it a pretty fair assumption that what the minority leader is doing, maybe for himself, maybe for others in his caucus, is he wants an opportunity to get off the housing debate and go on to the old saws we always hear from them on, such…

I am a little confused. Does the majority leader have any idea why the minority would want to be holding up FISA?

I want to say that I think the Judiciary Committee amendment is careful and balanced and takes into account both security and liberty. I also note, my colleague from Utah talked about the fact that every citizen would need a warrant in…

Now here is what we Democrats are asking for: commonsense solutions, designed to help people save their homes at an absolute minimum cost, designed to curtail the drop in housing prices, designed to restore the faith that Americans…

It appears his attorney general pick this week, Michael Mukasey, will be confirmed on late support from key Democrats.

I respect my colleague for that. But the Senator from Arizona--I know of his record longer, and he does not have that record.

I'm proud doing it. I spent some time doing it. I'm going to continue to do it. I think it's part of my job.

I'm proud to do it. I spent some time doing it. I'm going to continue to do it. I think it's part of my job.