In education, I'm going to try to find what works. One thing I want to do is improve the quality of teachers. There are a lot of people who want to go into teaching; it's fundamentally a very fulfilling profession. But people don't feel they have financial support. We pay starting teachers in particular too little to attract the quality people that we need. I want to make it easier for good people who want to go into teaching to do that.
Charles SchumerI don't think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It's a waste of resources.
Charles SchumerI'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.
Charles SchumerI'm still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people's lives better.
Charles SchumerYou 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.
Charles Schumer