Quotes from Andrew Cuomo

Flooding damage is not customary for New York, especially downstate.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I don't know people who don't say, boy the government is working better now.

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.

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

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

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

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 believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.

If I weren't doing the politics, I wouldn't be doing my job.

I know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. I'm angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done?

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.

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.

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 am against the death penalty.

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

Very few people go into politics to be reviled.

I am the government.

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