Chris Gibson Quotes
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What we need to do is have empathy and that ultimately, at the end of the day, it's a woman's private choice... I don't support federal funding for abortions, nor do I support late-term abortions.
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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.
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Churches, synagogues, and mosques should be treated the same.
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By training and keeping doctors in underserved areas, we're working toward a goal of increasing access to quality health care for more of our communities.
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You can distill deterrence down to two factors: capability and will.
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I believe that the strength in America is individual families and communities.
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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.
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I don't believe in amnesty... What I have proposed is that we would come forth with a program that allows individuals to come forward and to plead guilty... They would have to pay a fine; they would have to go through a background check - some say learn English - and they would get learned legal status.
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We've got to have a functioning government.
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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.
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I believe in a core set of fundamental Republican values.
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When the people's representatives have to go on record and vote, it transforms our country. It is a full recognition that we are in a state of war.
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We have to reform the entire political process. It's got to start with leadership by example.
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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.
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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.
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I think people should be authentic and who they are. If that calls people to same-sex attraction and same-sex marriage, then they should be true to who they are, and I think that the world could benefit by more love.
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This is what my calling is now. I'm here to try to help our party.
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I believe in peace through strength.
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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.
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There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about the paratroopers I served with who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms.
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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.
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For too long, Gov. Cuomo has led with fear, intimidation, and bullying.
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Legislation on Lyme disease, weather patterns, helping farmers, helping veterans - these are not partisan issues.
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We need legislation that encourages increased competition and tort reform and combats fraud, waste, and abuse. This would drive down health care costs, provide more 'bottom line' for our small businesses and lead to more private sector job growth.