Chuck Schumer

Four brave Senate Republicans to commit to rejecting any nominee until the next president is installed. I hope, pray and believe there's a decent chance that four Republicans will join us. If they do, we will have a fair trial.

The Senate has never confirmed a nominee to the Supreme Court this close to a presidential election. Four brave Senate Republicans may be the Senate's only last hope.

There is only one way, one way for this chamber to retain its dignity through this difficult chapter. There is only one way for us to have some hope of coming together again, trusting each other again, lowering the temperature, moving…

The Senate has never confirmed a nominee to the Supreme Court this close to a presidential election.

We're going to hear some crazy things from the other side to defend the indefensible.

We're not close to an election. We're in an election. And to try and decide this at this last time, at this late moment, is despicable and wrong and against democracy. It's shoving the wishes of the hard right and the Republicans who go…

If you care about all these rights, if you don't want big powerful, wealthy special interest to turn the clock back 100 years even, please, our fervent plea, our fervent wish is that you call your senator and say, abide by the wishes of…

Well, it will be a decision that comes to the Senate. We first have to win the majority before that can happen. But once we win the majority, God willing, everything is on the table.

We're going to delay it as long as we possibly can, and, quote, fire and fury.

The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.

We are not going to stop fighting until state election systems and the Post Office, which is part of getting the mail there, on time, get the resources that they need.

What a despicable derogation of democracy. What is his rational? It's a small amount of money. Ballots are a small percentage of the mail that's delivered. It is to discourage people from voting. He ought to be ashamed of himself.

We call on you to include emergency supplemental funding to preserve Amtrak, the critical services it provides, and the livelihoods of its employees.

Jay Clayton can allow himself to be used in this brazen Trump-Barr scheme to interfere with the investigations by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, or he can stand up, withdraw his name from consideration, and save…

The gentleman from Arkansas has made my point. He talks about business as usual. This is not business as usual. The typical rhetoric, the kind of avoiding action which has been so, so endemic in this Republican Party is showing itself…

If my friend from Wisconsin is willing to delay the other changes he wants and try to work those out, it would make eminent sense to delay this one, as well, and try to work that out and pass this bill. You never know what happens. We…

I thank my colleague. I would simply say that it seems to me he has it a little backward. We should pass this bill and then work on the changes--not hold this bill up. Who knows what can happen? Maybe it will happen today; maybe it will…

I want to tell you Gorsuch, I want to tell you Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price.

So all I can do is try to get something done because I think it affects health, it affects lives. It affects the well-being of my 20 million New York constituents and 300 some odd million Americans.

It's gotten a little better, but it's got a long way to go and the situation -- as we get more crises cities and centers in the country -- is going to get worse.

There's not a -- you need -- that's why you need a central figure in command and control, because they don't have a time line and it's all -- it's a little bit too much ad hoc.

You can't have a giant scavenger hunt where 5,000 different groups and people are looking for the same supplies and bidding against each other.

This is sort of life and death and so I'm going to keep trying.

The facts are, it's bad.

You need one person in charge, right now in the White House, and they're trying their best.