Michael Grimm quotes:

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.

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.

One of the things that I try to do when I have a tough time with anything - whatever it may be - is just look at someone else's situation. Here in Staten Island, look, I have people that have children that haven't been back in their home for 18 months after Sandy. They lost every worldly possession.

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

The ability to be successful should be a good thing.

America stands for the land of opportunity.

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,

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