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

I know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. I'm angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done?

I don't think anyone would argue with the notion that there have been serious abuses on Wall Street.

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

Flooding damage is not customary for New York, especially downstate.

To be clear... no one is above the law.

Their problem is not me and the Democrats; their problem is themselves. Who are they? Are they these extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay? Is that who they are? Because if that's who they are and they're the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York.