It's unfortunate, but it's a small price to pay for doing what's right for my district and for the country - Nicole Malliotakis

People, whether they're Democrats, independents, or Republicans, were saying that they desperately wanted to see a balance restored on a state and federal level

And just as we served for the last two years, we were representing the hard-working, taxpaying American citizen in Staten Island and southern Brooklyn that just wasn’t getting a fair shake

We need to have a balance. The pendulum has swung too far to the left. We need to restore the balance so we have commonsense policies to keep New Yorkers safe