It's time for the people of the Empire State to strike back.

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty

As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?

I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.

I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.

I am against the death penalty.

The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.

The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development

People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.

I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.

Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.

Hey, and for what it's worth? Friends don't leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who come and take you out.

No matter how old or sick or out of shape, you can still stretch and have a new beginning with yoga.

We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career.

Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man is the only animal that likes Tabasco sauce.

Knowing you're a child of the creator of the universe changes everything.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company.