Quotes By Andrew Cuomo

People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.

I'm a Queens boy at the end of the day.

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

I believe Wall Street needs serious ongoing regulation.

I am the government.

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.

There is energy and power in a crisis.

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.

Marriage equality changed life for people.

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

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 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.

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

I am against the death penalty.

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.

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.

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.

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

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.

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

The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development.

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.