Chris Gibson Quotes
While I have strongly and consistently supported the Clean Power Plan, and continue to do so, I cannot and will not support a proposal for a cap-and-trade system.

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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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You can distill deterrence down to two factors: capability and will.
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Churches, synagogues, and mosques should be treated the same.
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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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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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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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I believe that the strength in America is individual families and communities.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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We have to reform the entire political process. It's got to start with leadership by example.
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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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Our potential adversaries are watching us, and they have seen what has happened to us... This is why we're dealing with a very problematical and troublesome Putin, and we're dealing with Iran in a very terrible agreement we had.
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The consensus of the founders was, we don't want no government: we want limited but effective government.
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As I stated shortly after retiring from the U.S. Army and first pursuing a seat in Congress in 2010, I planned to self-impose term limits.
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NED is talking about through-putting this energy out to the vicinity of Boston then taking a northern route up to Nova Scotia and then exporting it, so they're not talking about giving us any local benefits at all.