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.

I am against the death penalty.

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.

Man is no star, but a quick coalOf mortal fire:Who blows it not, nor doth controlA faint desire,

I report as a machine; I write as a person. That clear dichotomy softens the transition.

If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged.

people commit suicide for only one reason - to escape torment.

I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two million dollars.

For every $1 advertisers spend advertising something healthful like apples, they spend $500 advertising junk food.

I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups

I have to come out of the closet of the third person and speak in a more direct way.

Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower.

Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action.