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“People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption.”
“There is no dispute that Albany needs to be changed. There is no dispute that the current situation in Albany is untenable. Nobody knows that better than I do.”
“Fear has never built a community. And fear will never build a nation.”
“To be clear... no one is above the law.”
“When you try to communicate too many ideas, sometimes you wind up communicating nothing.”
“If I get sued for keeping people safe and getting people in from the cold because they were endangering themselves, then so be it.”
“There is also something called the Legislature. There is something called the press. There is something called people. These are all different players on the stage.”
“I've been not only articulating the dissatisfaction with Albany, I've been acting on it. I've been very aggressive in bringing public integrity cases and public corruption cases and bringing cases against sitting legislators.”
“The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development.”
“There is energy and power in a crisis.”
“People are rightfully upset about Wall Street abuses and excess.”
“If I'm breathing in 2016, I'll be happy.”
“I don't know people who don't say, boy the government is working better now.”
“Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations,' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.”
“If you ask the American people to choose, between public health and the economy, then it's no contest. No American is going to say, accelerate the economy, at the cost of human life. Because no American is going to say how much a life is worth. Job one has to be save lives. That has to be the priority.”
“I worked in the Clinton administration.”
“The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act.”
“Climate change is a controversial subject, right? People will debate whether there is climate change... that's a whole political debate that I don't want to get into. I want to talk about the frequency of extreme weather situations, which is not political.”
“When you become president, they don't give you a magic wand that you wave. You have to get legislation passed. You have to get agencies to run programs.”
“New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.”