Wendy Long

“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.”

“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.”

“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?”

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

“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.'”

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

“There are no George Baileys anymore.”

“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.”

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

“I'm kind of a small-town girl.”

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

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

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

“Public officials insult our intelligence and our goodwill when they paint rosy pictures about budgets, jobs, bipartisanship, and transparency, and alter their positions on issues simply to keep collecting their paycheck by never disagreeing or disappointing anyone.”

“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'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.”

“Our government is corrupt.”

“The America I love is slipping away.”

“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.”