Chris Gibson

We know there isn't anything we can say or do that will bring their loved one back. What we can do is support them and honor their sacrifice by doing everything we can, every day, to make our communities stronger and our nation better so that we may be a people worthy of their sacrifices.

Among the chartered responsibilities of the federal government were, in those areas where appropriate - such as facilitating interstate commerce - to provide for justice and domestic tranquility, the common defense, and to secure the blessings of liberty.

The consensus of the founders was, we don't want no government: we want limited but effective government.

Mary Jo and I have three teenagers who are in their last years at home. In addition, I was just offered and accepted a position with Williams College as a visiting lecturer on leadership beginning in February 2017, and anticipate accepting other academic positions shortly.

Ultimately, for our family, the opportunity to spend increased time together, balanced with a return to academia, was one we could not pass up.

Intervening militarily would exacerbate - not resolve - the matter and, in the process, will Americanize the Syrian civil war.

Importantly, rather than being solely concerned with U.N. approval, the president must come first to our own Congress for authorization, and I urge him to do so. Finally, I understand the impulse to take action in Syria; however, I hope the president carefully considers this matter and resists the call from some to use military force in Syria.

The decision to use military force should always be one made with the utmost caution, with U.S. interests at stake, and with the consent of Congress.

I thank the voters of Upstate N.Y. for this privilege to serve and pledge to continue to work tirelessly on their behalf in this final term.

As I stated shortly after retiring from the U.S. Army and first pursuing a seat in Congress in 2010, I planned to self-impose term limits.

I have two basic votes before I vote: is it constitutional, and is it in the interests of my people. If the answer is yes to both of them, then I vote for it, and I don't care who authored it.

When it comes to the SAFE Act, when it comes to rolling back Common Core, I recognize that I need Assembly Democrats to make that a reality.

I think abortion is a settled issue in New York.

We have to reform the entire political process. It's got to start with leadership by example.

We should roll back Common Core.

I look at the corruption in Albany and we cannot accept that.

I will always remember the fear in the faces of the executed. That's the first day I felt the devil's presence.

When mainstream Muslims defeat the Islamic State, that lessens the ability of the Islamic State to recruit and fund-raise.

Legislation on Lyme disease, weather patterns, helping farmers, helping veterans - these are not partisan issues.

Churches, synagogues, and mosques should be treated the same.

The idea that two political parties can't come together to get a mission done is foreign to me - and unacceptable.

I've seen the human condition under the most trying of circumstances.

I had four combat tours, and I never saw death on a scale like I saw in Haiti. A quarter-million people lost their lives.

I don't recommend this, but my dad - to help us get through the winter, he bought a kerosene heater, and he had it in the kitchen so that the furnace wouldn't have to kick off.

We understand that we're going to be outspent. But we still think we can win decisively because there's some things money can't buy. Among these are votes.

Any attempt to single out Islam would be a violation of the Constitution.

NED is talking about through-putting this energy out to the vicinity of Boston then taking a northern route up to Nova Scotia and then exporting it, so they're not talking about giving us any local benefits at all.

In the five years from 2007 to 2012, we only gained a little over 1,200 farmers. Since we aren't going to stop eating, we have to reverse that trend, or we'll see even more consolidation, more corporate farms, or increasing food imports; none of that is in our interest.

Escalating in Syria is not the best approach.

We have changing weather patterns, and we have climate change. This is the science. I hope that my party will come to be comfortable with this because we have to operate in the realm of knowledge and science.

In the effort to save America, we should never violate her.

I believe that the strength in America is individual families and communities.

I believe in a core set of fundamental Republican values.

If I don't believe I'm the guy that's going to help defeat Cuomo, then I won't go forward.

For working-class families and small businesses... we have got to find ways to lower energy costs.

My district has been hit with three 500-year floods in the last several years, so either you believe that we had a one-in-over-100-million probability that occurred, or you believe as I do that there's a new normal, and we have changing weather patterns, and we have climate change. This is the science.

We need to put our priority on protecting this exceptional way of life.

We've got to have a functioning government.

While I have strongly and consistently supported the Clean Power Plan, and continue to do so, I cannot and will not support a proposal for a cap-and-trade system.

I came from a working-class family. My dad was in a union. I never forgot what it was like to be a private.

We can bring people together in an era rife with partisanship and divide.

New York has been embarrassed by corruption and lags behind in too many important categories. We can do better.

For too long, Gov. Cuomo has led with fear, intimidation, and bullying.

I will make the final decision on running for governor after my congressional term ends.

My travels have made clear that people across this state - from every political perspective - are looking for a new leader in Albany.

This deficit that we have threatens our very way of life, and everything needs to be on the table.

I hope the EPA will listen to the many votes over the years in Congress opposing cap-and-trade and rescind that proposed rule.

Cap-and-trade is a dangerous policy fraught with the potential for significant corruption, and it would hurt my constituents and our economy by raising energy costs.

I'm against the president's health care law because I don't agree that it's going to achieve its goals. I believe in the goals.

Part of being conservative is judicious conservation of resources, both man-made and natural.