121 Quotes by Charles Rangel

Some of you know I've been reported as saying Eliot Spitzer is one of the smartest people in the world, if not the smartest. It takes a lot of political courage to reach out and make an independent decision.

I would like to believe he's sick rather than just mean and evil,

I worry that we are losing our capacity to feel the pain of this war for which few Americans have been called to sacrifice in any way.

We can only support a tax cut when we know what is going to happen with the rest of the budget,

We have a million people -- a million Americans out there that have worked every day, that have paid into the unemployment compensation package -- and the bad cops are saying, 'forget about it,'

We would like to know which of the president's recommendation's he would like to drop, ... We only have $250 billion left, since the president has figured this just right.

We've opened up our doors to Mexico, Central and South America, to all of Asia, and here is the richest continent we've got, ... We have to start somewhere.

The President's policies in Iraq contributed to the slow response of federal troops who should have been on alert even before the hurricane struck.

You can no longer raise money and support those people in Washington and say you're not one of them, ... It's like being half-pregnant. Either you're in or you're out.