When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.

This is not a theoretical proposal destined for the archives of state government. This will be carried out,

We have forged a working partnership with the federal government in responding to floods, blizzards and wildfires, ... I believe that partnership should be extended to include the extraordinary circumstances of this catastrophe.

I knew that good people who wanted to be a part of the American dream have become trapped in dependency because the federal government and the state government had made it in their economic interest not to take a job because the benefits that they didn't work were better. I changed that.

There is no moral equivalency between those who would kill using children, innocent civilians, children and adults, in their homes and in their places of worship, to that of a government that is seeking those terrorists before they can engage in that awful activity.

After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.