Lesson 1 from Spitzer: Don't alienate the legislature on Day 1.
Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.
If I'm breathing in 2016, I'll be happy.
I'm a Queens boy at the end of the day.
There are 10,000 local governments in the state of New York. Ten thousand! Town, village, lighting district, water district, sewer district, a special district to count the other districts in case you missed a district.
Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.