If you look at who starts new businesses, people that are innovative and risk takers. When you look at immigrants, you really have to be an innovator and a risk taker to leave everything you know in the old country and go to a new country. People that come here in America come here to work.

I was a Democrat before I was a Republican before I became an independent and I never changed my principles.

You have to understand, we have better communications and better transportation, so people know what's available elsewhere and can get a message out, and you can move things. And you [can] say that the economy is more unpredictable.

Our goal here in New York is to ensure that every child who graduates high school is ready to start a career or start college and to dramatically increase the number of students that graduate from college.

Buy what's deliverable, not what could be.

Donald Trump says he wants to run America like he's running his business? God help us.

I don't know why you should be proud of something. It doesn't make you any better or worse. You are what you are.