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

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?

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.

Collective solutions to individual problems is very seductive. It’s how Obama gets elected, by the way.

The election is not just about the future of our country – it is about the future of our planet.

We simply cannot re-elect a president who does not believe in the rule of law and our constitution.

It’s not my place or Donald Trump’s place to declare who has won this election. That’s the decision of the American people.

Do not elect people who do not have God and Love in their hearts.

If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.

This piece is neither an endorsement nor an indictment of any leader, it’s just an open question!

The President’s post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.