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Our government is corrupt.
The America I love is slipping away.
Chuck Schumer is the face of the ruling class.
I'd rather be a lady of the evening than a feminist.
New York is a place where people have strong convictions.
The power of incumbency and the power of money is just overwhelming.
I think Republicans make a mistake when they seek to be 'Democrat light.'
There is regressivity built into the tax code by virtue of its complexity.
I will stand up for judges who faithfully follow the law as it is written.
We are in desperate need of a return to limited, constitutional government.
Judges should follow the law in deciding cases - not their own values, good or bad.
If you have empathy for both sides, then that's the same as having no empathy at all.
Christians are being persecuted, not just in the Middle East but here in this country.
We have to have legal immigration, which has to be something that benefits our country.
Good judges do not side with anyone. They rule impartially and blindly based upon the law.
Many Americans have sensed there is a very corrupt pay-to-play system going on in Washington.
The immigration laws of the United States should not be used to buy and sell political favors.
I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.
New York voters agree on this: There is too much corruption in government - federal, state, and local.
Thinking of ourselves as members of 'this group' or 'that group,' I think that's a recipe for division.
I converted to Catholicism at age 35, after being raised as a Congregationalist in a New England Yankee family.
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.'
What I do know is that liberal Democrat policies in our big cities are not helping anybody, especially our big cities.
In a nation based on the 'consent of the governed,' judges are supposed to apply the laws the people have assented to.
Republicans can nominate bad Justices, too. Earl Warren, William Brennan, Harry Blackmun, David Souter... the list goes on.
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 drastically revise much of the Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation, which I call the 'Bureaucrat Full Employment Act.'
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.
The Democrats have concocted this whole phony 'war on women' narrative simply to mask their dreadful record on the economy and jobs.
Conservatives who care about nominations of judges who practice judicial restraint are, constitutionally, restrained people themselves.
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?
Government has crowded out the role of many social institutions, including the Church, that have been a great force for good in public life.
The Supreme Court overrules, distinguishes, and upholds prior precedents. Sometimes it ignores them. But it does not - cannot - 'defy' them.
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.
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.
If Roe v. Wade were overturned tomorrow, nobody would even notice, because the states are legislating their own laws about abortion, completely independent.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The #NeverTrump crowd is running out of steam - and time. All of its attacks - that he's as liberal as Hillary Clinton, anti-immigrant, or a con man who will say anything to be elected - have failed.
Looking at the history of our country, we have been and we are pro-immigrant, but we aren't going to be much of a country if we don't take care of our own people first and if we don't observe the rule of law.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.