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" 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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" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I had a dream to become a mounted policewoman. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The immigration laws of the United States should not be used to buy and sell political favors. "

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

" 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. "

" Judges should follow the law in deciding cases - not their own values, good or bad. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The American people have made clear that they want justices who have proven records of judicial restraint - exactly the kind of justices that Obama and Biden cannot abide. "

" There is regressivity built into the tax code by virtue of its complexity. "

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

" If Roe v. Wade were overturned tomorrow, nobody would even notice, because the states are legislating their own laws about abortion, completely independent. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I converted to Catholicism at age 35, after being raised as a Congregationalist in a New England Yankee family. "

" Government has crowded out the role of many social institutions, including the Church, that have been a great force for good in public life. "