"Promoting job creation and economic growth in the Hudson Valley is one of my top priorities in Congress"

"Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity"

"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?"

"It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life"

"They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men"

"States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities"

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money"

"There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty"

"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists"

"From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase"

"There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress"