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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. "
Wendy Long
Nobody
Laws
Abortion
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" I had a dream to become a mounted policewoman. "
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Become
Had
Dream
" Whether it's federal highway funds for the Thruway or Tappan Zee bridge project or the corrupt Cornhusker deal, Senator Gillibrand is willing to sell out our hardworking families. She has failed to address the problem that taxpayers in New York send much more to Washington that we get back. "
Wendy Long
Problem
Back
She
" If you have empathy for both sides, then that's the same as having no empathy at all. "
Wendy Long
Same
Empathy
Both Sides
" The power of incumbency and the power of money is just overwhelming. "
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Money
Overwhelming
Power
" 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
" 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
" I would drastically revise much of the Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation, which I call the 'Bureaucrat Full Employment Act.' "
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Employment
Much
Legislation
" The America I love is slipping away. "
Wendy Long
America
Love Is
Love
" 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.' "
Wendy Long
Think
Someone
Serious
" I think Republicans make a mistake when they seek to be 'Democrat light.' "
Wendy Long
Think
Democrat
Light
" What I do know is that liberal Democrat policies in our big cities are not helping anybody, especially our big cities. "
Wendy Long
Liberal
Know
Democrat
" Judges should follow the law in deciding cases - not their own values, good or bad. "
Wendy Long
Law
Judges
Good
" Lady Justice doesn't have empathy for anyone. She rules strictly based upon the law, and that's really the only way that our system can function properly under the Constitution. "
Wendy Long
Justice
She
Constitution
" 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
" 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
" I've never really fit in. "
Wendy Long
Never
Fit
Really
" I'm kind of a small-town girl. "
Wendy Long
Small-Town
Kind
Girl
" 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
" Chuck Schumer is the face of the ruling class. "
Wendy Long
Ruling Class
Chuck
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. "
Wendy Long
Every Day
Day
Work
" 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? "
Wendy Long
Health
Decision
Body
" 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. "
Wendy Long
Lawyers
More
Our
" Many Americans have sensed there is a very corrupt pay-to-play system going on in Washington. "
Wendy Long
System
Many
Going
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Christians are being persecuted, not just in the Middle East but here in this country. "
Wendy Long
Country
Here
Middle East
" 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. "
Wendy Long
Challenges
Nation
People
" The immigration laws of the United States should not be used to buy and sell political favors. "
Wendy Long
Sell
Laws
Immigration
" 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. "
Wendy Long
You
Help
Create