Andrew Cuomo Quotes
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There are 10,000 local governments in the state of New York. Ten thousand! Town, village, lighting district, water district, sewer district, a special district to count the other districts in case you missed a district.
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It's time for the people of the Empire State to strike back.
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I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.
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I'm a Queens boy at the end of the day.
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I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.
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I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.
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I don't know people who don't say 'boy, the government is working better now.'
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I am against the death penalty.
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I believe Wall Street needs serious ongoing regulation.
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I never thought I would be divorced.
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If there's a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become a physical metaphor for the isolation and alienation of our people.
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My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.
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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.
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There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty
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I've worked on the urban agenda all my life. All. My. Life.
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Their problem is not me and the Democrats; their problem is themselves. Who are they? Are they these extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay? Is that who they are? Because if that's who they are and they're the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York.
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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.
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I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.
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The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.
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Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.
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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.
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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.
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I did experiment with marijuana when I was a youth.
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The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development
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I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.
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He was the keynote speaker for our better angels.
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There is energy and power in a crisis.
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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.
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Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.
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I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.
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