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

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" 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. "

" Good judges do not side with anyone. They rule impartially and blindly based upon the law. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" How great would it be to have a native son lead us out of turmoil and trouble to peace and justice? Someone who follows the rule of law and not the rule of mob... This is the path Donald Trump has set for our great nation, and it's the same path I'm on. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 would drastically revise much of the Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation, which I call the 'Bureaucrat Full Employment Act.' "

" 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. "

" Thinking of ourselves as members of 'this group' or 'that group,' I think that's a recipe for division. "

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

" 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. "

" The power of incumbency and the power of money is just overwhelming. "

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

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

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

" Christians are being persecuted, not just in the Middle East but here in this country. "

" 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. "