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" I had a dream to become a mounted policewoman. "
Wendy Long
Become
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" 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
" 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. "
Wendy Long
Judges
Battles
Power
" The power of incumbency and the power of money is just overwhelming. "
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Money
Overwhelming
Power
" 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
" Thinking of ourselves as members of 'this group' or 'that group,' I think that's a recipe for division. "
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Division
Group
Think
" 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. "
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Used
Development
End
" I've enjoyed the benefits of this country, which has been very good to me. "
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Country
Good
Which
" The immigration laws of the United States should not be used to buy and sell political favors. "
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Sell
Laws
Immigration
" We have to have legal immigration, which has to be something that benefits our country. "
Wendy Long
Country
Legal
Benefits
" Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written. "
Wendy Long
Law
Important
Political
" Good judges do not side with anyone. They rule impartially and blindly based upon the law. "
Wendy Long
Side
Blindly
Rule
" 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. "
Wendy Long
People
Empathy
Constitution
" Senator Gillibrand is good at saying things that sound nice but have little substance. I don't think we elect our public officials to avoid taking a stand or a difficult position on anything. "
Wendy Long
Think
Sound
Saying
" 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
" Our government is corrupt. "
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Our
Government
Corrupt
" 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
" 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. "
Wendy Long
Own
People
Looking
" There is regressivity built into the tax code by virtue of its complexity. "
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Tax Code
Virtue
Code
" I converted to Catholicism at age 35, after being raised as a Congregationalist in a New England Yankee family. "
Wendy Long
Yankee
New England
New
" The Supreme Court overrules, distinguishes, and upholds prior precedents. Sometimes it ignores them. But it does not - cannot - 'defy' them. "
Wendy Long
Supreme
Court
Sometimes
" 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'm on the Trump team. "
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Trump
Team
" 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. "
Wendy Long
Person
Said
Leg
" Chuck Schumer is the face of the ruling class. "
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Ruling Class
Chuck
Class
" We are in desperate need of a return to limited, constitutional government. "
Wendy Long
Government
Desperate
Return
" Conservatives who care about nominations of judges who practice judicial restraint are, constitutionally, restrained people themselves. "
Wendy Long
People
Practice
Care
" 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. "
Wendy Long
Vote
America
Good
" 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
" Judges should follow the law in deciding cases - not their own values, good or bad. "
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Law
Judges
Good
" I've never really fit in. "
Wendy Long
Never
Fit
Really