The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.

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.

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings.

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors.

I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.

Being unemployed is the true test of who you really are.

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

Donald Trump's not politically correct. Although you are running for president, you should be politically correct. But there is also the expression of an artist.

Instead of trying to cover the whole world with leather, put on some sandals.