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

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty

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

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

The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.

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

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?