“If I’m breathing in 2016, I’ll be happy.”

There’s no such thing as a 100-year flood.

Lesson from Pataki’s success is: Use the political moment.

I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.

I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.

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.

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’m in politics. I’m in government, so nothing surprises me.

The other states look to New York for the progressive direction. New York made a powerful statement [legalizing marriage equality], not just for the people of New York, but for people all across this nation.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

I want to be the candidate placed on the ballot by the people, not the party.

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.

When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.

The purest form of joy comes to us in ordinary moments, and those moments can happen any place where gratitude is alive. ⁣

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.

Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.

Poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive.

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.

There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It’s why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.