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

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.

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.

I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.

Success needs vision to see, passion to transcend, patience to withstand and the character to overcome failures.

People sometimes get so lost in their own beliefs that they fail to gain truth and understanding. You can't get the whole picture just by relying on your own perception. Never be afraid of the truth.

Dreamers dream the dream, Artists live it.

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure there; a scale which balanced poetry and prayer.

Lying on the roof counting the stars that fill the sky I wonder if Someone in the heavens looking back down on me I'll never know So much space to believe

The common characteristics of people make a community possible, but it is their uncommon qualities that make it better.

I knew that a day I took away from the work did not make me too happy.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.