Let's make New York the safest state in America - that must be our goal. Let's achieve it together.

But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act.

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.

After September 11th, nations from across the globe offered their generous assistance to the people of New York. And whenever our friends around the world need our assistance, New York is there.

My father couldn't speak English when he went to the first grade and I had to work in a factory over Christmas and summer vacations. And I think that's the American way and one of the things that excites me about this race is that pretty much everything I've done I've started at the bottom and been able to finish at the top.

Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe.

Baseball is a diversion. It is therapy. It takes peoples minds off of everything that has happened, if just for a while.