Quotes By Andrew Cuomo

If I'm breathing in 2016, I'll be happy.

I believe Wall Street needs serious ongoing regulation.

Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.

What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel.

It's time for the people of the Empire State to strike back.

I believe global warming and climate change are real threats to our planet.

There are 10,000 local governments in the state of New York. Ten thousand! Town, village, lighting district, water district, sewer district, a special district to count the other districts in case you missed a district.

Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.

You can be a lender who wants to compete and have a better product, but you just can't get to the students. The schools are controlling the access to the students.

Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations,' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.

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

I don't think bonuses are always bad.

I'm not going to raise taxes; I'm not going to have a wage increase for public employees.

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.

I am against the death penalty.

Climate change is a controversial subject, right? People will debate whether there is climate change... that's a whole political debate that I don't want to get into. I want to talk about the frequency of extreme weather situations, which is not political.

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.

I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.

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.

Very few people go into politics to be reviled.

I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.

To be clear... no one is above the law.

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

Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.

There's no such thing as a 100-year flood.

Anyone who says there is not a change in weather patterns is denying reality.

People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption.

The other states look to New York for the progressive direction.

Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.