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'm a Queens boy at the end of the day.

Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

There is no dispute that Albany needs to be changed. There is no dispute that the current situation in Albany is untenable. Nobody knows that better than I do.

I'm going to change everything you believe about HUD.

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.