I doubt that I am the first member of Congress to tell off a reporter, and I am sure I won’t be the last,

America stands for the land of opportunity.

I would want to teach my children someday that they should strive to be successful.

The ability to be successful should be a good thing.

I'm aggressive, quite frankly, because Staten Island gets screwed all the time. And if I'm not aggressive, then I won't be successful. That's not being a bad boy. That's doing my job.

I have people coming to me every day, coming to my office, with life-threatening diseases - life-threatening diseases - and they were dropped from their health care because of the Affordable Care Act.

There's no question that, um, you know, the oceans have risen, right? And the climate change part is, is a real part of it.

What I'm guilty of is trying the hardest and giving 100 percent of myself and putting my heart and soul into representing the people of Staten Island and Brooklyn.

I don't think it's good for economy to have a broken immigration system.

I am the only Republican Congressman who represents a borough within New York City, a city of 8.5 million people.