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" 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. "
Wendy Long
Giving
Sacrifice
Believe
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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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" 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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" How does a religious employer's decision not to offer health plans with abortion coverage dictate to anyone what to do with her own body? "
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" 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.' "
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" 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. "
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America
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" I converted to Catholicism at age 35, after being raised as a Congregationalist in a New England Yankee family. "
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New England
New
" Conservatives who care about nominations of judges who practice judicial restraint are, constitutionally, restrained people themselves. "
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" The Supreme Court overrules, distinguishes, and upholds prior precedents. Sometimes it ignores them. But it does not - cannot - 'defy' them. "
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Court
Sometimes
" We have to have legal immigration, which has to be something that benefits our country. "
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Country
Legal
Benefits
" I will stand up for judges who faithfully follow the law as it is written. "
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Law
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" Christians are being persecuted, not just in the Middle East but here in this country. "
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Here
Middle East
" A judge is supposed to have empathy for no one but simply to follow the law. "
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Supposed
Empathy
" 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
" The power of incumbency and the power of money is just overwhelming. "
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Money
Overwhelming
Power
" 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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Change
Think
World
" I'm kind of a small-town girl. "
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Small-Town
Kind
Girl
" 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. "
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People
Empathy
Constitution
" Judges should follow the law in deciding cases - not their own values, good or bad. "
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Law
Judges
Good
" 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
" 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
" I'm on the Trump team. "
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Trump
Team
" Our government is corrupt. "
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Our
Government
Corrupt
" The whole idea behind the EB-5 visa was to help create jobs in economically disadvantaged areas. But where big bucks are involved, corruption soon follows, and with Chuck Schumer and the EB-5 visa program, you need to follow the money. "
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You
Help
Create
" I've never really fit in. "
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Never
Fit
Really
" Government has crowded out the role of many social institutions, including the Church, that have been a great force for good in public life. "
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Good
Church
Great
" 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
" 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've enjoyed the benefits of this country, which has been very good to me. "
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Country
Good
Which
" In a nation based on the 'consent of the governed,' judges are supposed to apply the laws the people have assented to. "
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Consent
Laws
Judges
" If we can be sure of anything, it's that the immense challenges faced by our country and our nation cannot be solved by the same people in the same offices, casting the same votes for the same failed policies. "
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Challenges
Nation
People