Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.
Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.
He was the keynote speaker for our better angels.
I don't know people who don't say 'boy, the government is working better now.'
I've worked on the urban agenda all my life. All. My. Life.
The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.