“I know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. I’m angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done?”

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?

To be clear no one is above the law.

The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.

I don’t think bonuses are always bad.

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.

I’m a harsh critic of the status quo.

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

People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption.

I think there’s a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.

I believe global warming and climate change are real threats to our planet.

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance.

I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that’s what I’m doing.

Politicians are good listeners. Because if they’re not, they aren’t politicians for very long.

That city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.

Speech is the mirror of action.

Heaven and hell is right now. You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.

I have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.

But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.

Don’t be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there’s a reaction.