Wendy Long

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.

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

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.

I'm on the Trump team.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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

I will stand up for judges who faithfully follow the law as it is written.

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.

Chuck Schumer is the face of the ruling class.

Our government is corrupt.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

New York is a place where people have strong convictions.

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

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.

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

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

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

They're lots of good Americans here in New York who have common sense and who believe in free markets and free people and limited government under our Constitution. Those are the principles I've always stood for. I know they're right, and that's what I'm going to stand for.

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.

I'm kind of a small-town girl.

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

The America I love is slipping away.

There are no George Baileys anymore.

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.

The Democrats have concocted this whole phony 'war on women' narrative simply to mask their dreadful record on the economy and jobs.

I am the candidate of tax cuts, repealing Obamacare, repealing Dodd-Frank, letting the markets work, coming up with patient-and-doctor-centered healthcare solutions instead of more big government - and just generally getting government off the backs of small businesses.

I've never really fit in.

I've spent a great deal of time over the past decade as a caregiver for various family members. It gives me a perspective on the struggles that many New Yorkers face with illness, disability, health care, insurance difficulties, and trying to work with and also take care of family members.

I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.

I would not waste time, as Senator Gillibrand does, on things such as dictating a national minimum driving age and sponsoring a 'National Day of Play.' I'd help New Yorkers understand that we get less in value from Washington than what we send there in taxes.

I'd rather be a lady of the evening than a feminist.