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" 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. "

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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.' "

Wendy Long

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" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" The America I love is slipping away. "

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

" We are in desperate need of a return to limited, constitutional government. "

" Our government is corrupt. "

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

" Many Americans have sensed there is a very corrupt pay-to-play system going on in Washington. "

" 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 you have empathy for both sides, then that's the same as having no empathy at all. "

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

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

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

" I've never really fit in. "

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

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

" 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

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" 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. "

" Chuck Schumer is the face of the ruling class. "

" Serious people need to work hard to reduce the debt, reduce taxes, and slash regulation on the small businesses and families that are the lifeblood of new jobs and innovation in our state. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Obama and Biden want a bench crammed full of liberal judicial activists, and it's up to the American people to tell them 'no.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "