I don't think bonuses are always bad.

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’ll always be here if you need me, ” Mothwing told him. “I may not share your faith, but I will always help you fight for what you believe in.

Sometimes God calls a person to unbelief in order that faith may take new forms.

I'm just a big old nerd.

I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre.

How that name comes up. Mixing memory and desire

I believe there is something on this earth that you desire more than anything, and it isn't me.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

Black is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard chess notation, +-

This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.

As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.