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

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?'

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

All unnatural control systems have a key element in their intricate composition – the fatality that they will naturally collapse.

I choose not to fight against but to stand for. Not to go against but to go for.

No action can be virtuous unless it is freely chosen.

Words are the money of fools.

The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.

The fact that China has about seven percent arable land, means that she’s always going to be looking for places that have more arable lands to finance or to provide food stuffs.

The long-run historical tendency of capitalism has not only been to increase real incomes more or less proportionately nearly all along the line, but to benefit the masses even more than the rich.

Love is only a small thing, enough for one person, and any suggestion that the heart might be larger than this is considered perverse.

I always like to keep the budget as small as possible just to have the most freedom.