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

Andrew Cuomo

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

Government Law Nation Performance
Lesson from Pataki’s success is: Use the political moment.
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Lesson Movement Politics Revolution Success
If there’s a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become a physical metaphor for the isolation and alienation of our people.
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Alone Battle Citizenship Ourselves People
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.
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Believe Best Government Inspirational Myself Oppression
I haven’t lost my head yet.
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Lost Myself Survive
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.
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Death Desire Father Fear Hard Myself
There’s no such thing as a 100-year flood.
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Ocean Reality Truth
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.
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Act Failure Government Independence People Right
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.
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Different People Player Politics Rule
There is energy and power in a crisis.
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Energy Hard Time One Liner Power Struggle
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.
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Direction Equality Marriage Nation People Powerful
Politicians are good listeners. Because if they’re not, they aren’t politicians for very long.
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Goodness Listening Politics
Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there’s going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.
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Fight Reason Understand Yourself
There is no dispute that Albany needs to be changed. There is no dispute that the current situation in Albany is untenable. Nobody knows that better than I do.
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Better Change Fight Need Struggle War
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.
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Myself Reality Respect Simplicity Unity
There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.
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Money Opinion Poverty War

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