My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

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.

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

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

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

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

If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.

It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.