There's no such thing as a 100-year flood.

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.

Universe is the Sun watching its own self.

She kissed him but he didn't seem to recognize it.

The vampire movies I embraced as a kid used vampirism as a metaphor that expressed deep sadness and a lot of human qualities.

Little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance.

What can be broken, should be broken.

Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.

Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.

I do think that campaigns are about electing somebody, but they're also about a discussion of the future of our country.

I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d go and pick them up again, because they are books, after all, and we are not savages.

Satisfaction is the death of ambition.