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" Having been on the front lines of the confirmation battles involving Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito, I know firsthand what is at stake when the Senate exercises its 'advise and consent' power over federal judges. "

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" 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

" Serious people need to work hard to reduce the debt, reduce taxes, and slash regulation on the small businesses and families that are the lifeblood of new jobs and innovation in our state. "

" New York voters agree on this: There is too much corruption in government - federal, state, and local. "

" I've enjoyed the benefits of this country, which has been very good to me. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" In a nation based on the 'consent of the governed,' judges are supposed to apply the laws the people have assented to. "

" I've never really fit in. "

" 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. "

" Mainstream America, in the long run, will always stand for highly qualified, impartial judges and for a fair process and for senators who do their jobs and vote - not who unfairly smear good men like Judge Alito. "

" I'm kind of a small-town girl. "

" We have to have legal immigration, which has to be something that benefits our country. "

" New York is a place where people have strong convictions. "

" There are no George Baileys anymore. "

Wendy Long

George

Anymore

" Conservatives who care about nominations of judges who practice judicial restraint are, constitutionally, restrained people themselves. "

" I think Republicans make a mistake when they seek to be 'Democrat light.' "

" 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. "

" If you have empathy for both sides, then that's the same as having no empathy at all. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What I do know is that liberal Democrat policies in our big cities are not helping anybody, especially our big cities. "

" 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. "

" The best way to have empathy for people and the best way to have empathy for our Constitution is to appoint judges who will rule based on the law and to have empathy, if you will, for the law only and to rule based on the law. "

" A judge is supposed to have empathy for no one but simply to follow the law. "

" Republicans can nominate bad Justices, too. Earl Warren, William Brennan, Harry Blackmun, David Souter... the list goes on. "

" Chuck Schumer is the face of the ruling class. "

" 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. "

" We are in desperate need of a return to limited, constitutional government. "

" The Supreme Court overrules, distinguishes, and upholds prior precedents. Sometimes it ignores them. But it does not - cannot - 'defy' them. "