What better day to lay the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower than the day our country declared its independence.

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.

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.

After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.

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.

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

We are one America. If we work together across party lines, there's no problem we can't solve and the 21st century will be America's greatest century.