I'm running for governor; I'm not running for a legislative office.

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

Climate change is a controversial subject, right? People will debate whether there is climate change... that's a whole political debate that I don't want to get into. I want to talk about the frequency of extreme weather situations, which is not political.

Lesson 1 from Spitzer: Don't alienate the legislature on Day 1.

I've been not only articulating the dissatisfaction with Albany, I've been acting on it. I've been very aggressive in bringing public integrity cases and public corruption cases and bringing cases against sitting legislators

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

I've worked on the urban agenda all my life. All. My. Life.