“Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there’s going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.”

I never thought I would be divorced.

We need marriage equality in every state in this nation. Otherwise, no state really has marriage equality, and we will not rest until it is a reality.

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.

I believe Wall Street needs serious ongoing regulation.

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

Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.

Anyone who says there is not a change in weather patterns is denying reality.

I’m going to change everything you believe about HUD.

I’m running for governor; I’m not running for a legislative office.

I don’t know people who don’t say ‘boy, the government is working better now.’

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.

Lesson 1 from Spitzer: Don’t alienate the legislature on Day 1.

I did experiment with marijuana when I was a youth.

I’m a Queens boy at the end of the day.

He was the keynote speaker for our better angels.

As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?

Don’t stop trying, learning, fighting, experimenting, doing, until the miracle happens.

My mum [who has breast cancer] is a fighter. I’ve got that from her, I know she’s a fighter.

The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.

We don’t like to kill our unborn; we need them to grow up and fight our wars.

I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.

This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.

Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?

I would like, before I die, to see the changes I’ve always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.