I have tremendous admiration for everyone who enters the political arena so long as their goal is to do what they believe is right for the people of New York.

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.

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

Obviously you follow the law of the land, there are many laws I disagree with, but you follow the law. You fight to change the law, you don't break the law. I believe that's the American way.

Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate.

In Washington, when you’re a leader, you have to put aside partisan politics to do what’s right for the people.

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.