I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession. – Charles Schumer
Voters did say repeal health care, they did say reduce the size of government. But not a single one of them from the tea party or anywhere said give tax breaks to the wealthiest. – Charles Schumer
Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do. – Charles Schumer
When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done. – Charles Schumer
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic. – Harold Bloom