Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough!

I think it's a sign that the establishment is going to have to change. For too long they never thought about the average person, because the average person is not organized.

I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.

The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines.

We should remember it wasn't so long ago that confidence in New York was in short supply.

The press really is not doing its job of holding their [the candidates'] feet to the fire. ... The tough questions are not what are you in favor of, but how are you going to get it through Congress?

If it wasn't for O'Flanagan's Pub on Manhattan's Upper East Side, I don't know where I would have spent my Friday nights as a young man.