I am against the death penalty.

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty

As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?

I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.

I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.

The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.

The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development

People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.

I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.

I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.

This place looks like the last scene in Hamlet.

When the States already had nuclear weapons, and the Soviet Union was only building them, we got a significant amount of information through Soviet foreign intelligence channels.

The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.

Every group spends more when its income grows.

I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of vaginas. They bother me in the way that spiders bother some people.

The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.

Angelina Jolie and I love each other. IF that's unusual these days, that's sad.

When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption.

There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and educate yourself with all kinds of stories.

Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.