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" A judge is supposed to have empathy for no one but simply to follow the law. "
Wendy Long
Judge
Supposed
Empathy
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" The #NeverTrump crowd is running out of steam - and time. All of its attacks - that he's as liberal as Hillary Clinton, anti-immigrant, or a con man who will say anything to be elected - have failed. "
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Man
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" New York City is the financial capital of the world. The Dodd-Frank Act, I think, is going to change that. It's going to send jobs to London and Geneva and Hong Kong and Sydney instead of keeping New York the financial center of the world. "
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" If Roe v. Wade were overturned tomorrow, nobody would even notice, because the states are legislating their own laws about abortion, completely independent. "
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Nobody
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" The power of incumbency and the power of money is just overwhelming. "
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Money
Overwhelming
Power
" The Supreme Court overrules, distinguishes, and upholds prior precedents. Sometimes it ignores them. But it does not - cannot - 'defy' them. "
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Supreme
Court
Sometimes
" Looking at the history of our country, we have been and we are pro-immigrant, but we aren't going to be much of a country if we don't take care of our own people first and if we don't observe the rule of law. "
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Own
People
Looking
" I believe in the idea of sacrifice and fighting for what's right and giving something back to the country that's given me so much. "
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Giving
Sacrifice
Believe
" I've never really fit in. "
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Never
Fit
Really
" It's a sacrifice for me. It's not really something I want to do. I don't love the idea of being a U.S. senator; I love the idea of being a mother. "
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Want
Idea
Love
" Good judges do not side with anyone. They rule impartially and blindly based upon the law. "
Wendy Long
Side
Blindly
Rule
" As New York's United States Senator, I promise to reinstate the Moynihan 'Fisc Report' and work every day to address the imbalance of payments, first by focusing on reducing the amount of taxes we send to Washington, and second, by ensuring that funding formulas don't disadvantage New York. "
Wendy Long
Every Day
Day
Work
" Obama and Biden want a bench crammed full of liberal judicial activists, and it's up to the American people to tell them 'no.' "
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Judicial
Want
People
" Chuck Schumer is the face of the ruling class. "
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Ruling Class
Chuck
Class
" I would drastically revise much of the Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation, which I call the 'Bureaucrat Full Employment Act.' "
Wendy Long
Employment
Much
Legislation
" Conservatives who care about nominations of judges who practice judicial restraint are, constitutionally, restrained people themselves. "
Wendy Long
People
Practice
Care
" I've enjoyed the benefits of this country, which has been very good to me. "
Wendy Long
Country
Good
Which
" I converted to Catholicism at age 35, after being raised as a Congregationalist in a New England Yankee family. "
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Yankee
New England
New
" I'm here to speak for those who say the American Dream isn't working for them, because I know it isn't. I'm here to say it's not your fault: the ruling class... has failed you. "
Wendy Long
Dream
Speak
American
" I would end the EB-5 program altogether, if we cannot establish that it can be used only to bring development to impoverished places where it otherwise truly would not occur under normal American market forces. "
Wendy Long
Used
Development
End
" The thing is that Chuck Schumer, for all his power and influence, is a pretty pathetic figure. You go around New York State, and people make jokes about him and talk about how he shows up at the New York State Fair and has a staffer carrying a big sign saying 'Come meet Chuck Schumer.' "
Wendy Long
You
Saying
Power
" In a nation based on the 'consent of the governed,' judges are supposed to apply the laws the people have assented to. "
Wendy Long
Consent
Laws
Judges
" Kirsten Gillibrand and I are very similar in our biographies. We're both mothers, we're both lawyers. But we couldn't be more different in our beliefs, in our principles, in our politics. "
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Lawyers
More
Our
" The immigration laws of the United States should not be used to buy and sell political favors. "
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Sell
Laws
Immigration
" Paul Ryan has been a responsible legislator and public servant, almost alone among members of Congress in his belief that we need to strengthen and save our social entitlements. "
Wendy Long
Alone
Belief
Congress
" With so many serious issues and responsibilities before the United States Senate, I think New York needs an independent senator who thinks for herself, not someone who just rubberstamps the Obama agenda or checks with Chuck Schumer and says, 'Me too.' "
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Think
Someone
Serious
" My son was 8 or 9, and he really wanted a gun. It was Christmas, and I said to my husband, 'It's time for a gun.' "
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Time
Son
Said
" We've always said a filibuster is not appropriate for judicial nominees. A filibuster is a legislative tool designed to extract compromises. A judicial nominee is a person. You can't take the arm or leg of a nominee. "
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Person
Said
Leg
" I guess I was a little idealistic and thought if you are honest and you're well-qualified and capable of waging a good fight, you can raise money. And what I learned is that our campaign finance laws are really a great big incumbent protection act. "
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Money
You
Great
" I think Republicans make a mistake when they seek to be 'Democrat light.' "
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Think
Democrat
Light
" Government has crowded out the role of many social institutions, including the Church, that have been a great force for good in public life. "
Wendy Long
Good
Church
Great