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

The expansion of tobacco cessation centers is an important part of our historic and continuing effort to help smokers quit. The expansion of these centers will give even more New Yorkers the help they need to quit once and for all.

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

You know, there are some areas of the state that are providing enormous help to their students; there are others where they're not doing what they can.

There is no moral equivalency between those who would kill using children, innocent civilians, children and adults, in their homes and in their places of worship, to that of a government that is seeking those terrorists before they can engage in that awful activity.

Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship.

Freedom of speech is one of the greatest American liberties, and I hope this pardon serves as a reminder of the precious freedoms we are fighting to preserve as we continue to wage the war on terror.