“I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.”

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 power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in.

I believe our lives change when we trust that God really wants our best.

The less you think, the more you believe.

It’s always good to do something that is not a repeat. I just don’t believe in repeating.

I do not believe in my death.

Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.

I truly, truly believe that beauty is something that comes from within.

I don’t care if the whole world is against you or teasing you or saying you are not gonna make it. Believe in yourself, no matter what.