Andrew Cuomo Quotes

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Andrew Cuomo

Profession : Politician

Birth : December 6, 1957

I think Hillary Clinton is going to do very well in New York, because there's one basic advantage. New Yorkers know Hillary Clinton. She was here for senator. We've seen her work. We've seen her performance.

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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.

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I'm very big on focus.

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When you try to communicate too many ideas, sometimes you wind up communicating nothing.

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

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As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?

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

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I'm governor of New York.

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

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You add one million citizens to the voting rolls in this state, that's a significant, significant difference. You do that nationwide, it's a significant difference.

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Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.

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Very few people go into politics to be reviled.

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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.

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

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

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There is energy and power in a crisis.

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

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

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If you ask the American people to choose, between public health and the economy, then it's no contest. No American is going to say, accelerate the economy, at the cost of human life. Because no American is going to say how much a life is worth. Job one has to be save lives. That has to be the priority.

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

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