“I’m going to change everything you believe about HUD.”

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.

I’m in politics. I’m in government, so nothing surprises me.

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.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

I want to be the candidate placed on the ballot by the people, not the party.

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 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.

No matter who you are it’s the simple things in life that lead you to believe that you can achieve anything.

Man believes in the possible, but God believes in the impossible.

We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, “We worship God through Christ!” Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.

I used to dream about the future like each and every one of you Chase your dreams. Believe. You are the future.

There’s no sense in going to a tournament if you don’t believe that you can win it. And that is the belief I have always had. And that is not going to change.

I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.

We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.