“I think naturally my orientation is from my father.”

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?

The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That’s what the reputation is. You can’t control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.

People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.

Day by day, what you do is who you become.

The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.

Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.