There's a rhythm to the legislative session and there are rhythms to legislative sessions. So I think that's very important to take into consideration when you are deciding what to do when.

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.

I have experienced deep despair, mental-ill health and attempt of suicide.

Was there some basic flaw in her makeup that made her keep falling in love with this man who couldn’t love her back?

It's not the things I don't understand about the Bible that bother me; it's the things I understand with perfect clarity and don't comply with that keep me up at night.

Please follow me because I have to follow him and he isn't here.

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it.

Let me tell you, that was a thrill. Now, even more, I knew I had to get Schmeling good.

I'm quite an example. I have four kids, all from the same wife, all from the same husband.

Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder.

I used to date a girl from Buffalo. Why can't I meet a girl with normal parents?

This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o-erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire.