I'm a very spontaneous person. If someone aggravates me, I'm going to go after them. I wake up every morning, and I say, 'What bad guys should I go after today?'

I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.

I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.

We're going to restructure the state government into a government that's responsive to the needs of New York state taxpayers.

I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.

People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.

I see a New York that is once again the empire state.

If you're a citizen of the State of New York, your kid has as much a right as another kid to an education, and the best education. The money should be distributed equally to all.

Don't misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way. That would be a dastardly lie.

I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.

THESE ARE BEAUTIFUL PROPERTIES with basketball courts, bathroom facilities, toilet facilities. Many young people would love to get the hell out of cities

Keep your hopes high.

we inhale life and exhale words. that's just what writers' do--

Lottie tilted her head to one side and looked Maya up and down. "You're a little bit of a thing, but I hear you're good at stirring up big trouble.

Now you see what kind of creatures we are, Hugh. Eating things alive. That's what we do. How can you have much respect for mankind, or any belief in the social struggle?

There have been many Presidents of the United States and the roll will be indefinitely extended. We have had a number of brilliant soldiers, but only one great general.

Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.

With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief.

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.

You can't. You just have to.