People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption.

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.

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

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

I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.

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.

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.