Quotes from Wendy Long

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.'

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.

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

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.

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

We have to have legal immigration, which has to be something that benefits our country.

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

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

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.

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

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 America I love is slipping away.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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