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But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act.
Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.
There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.
It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South.
Let's make New York the safest state in America - that must be our goal. Let's achieve it together.
Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?
If I made a mistake in terms of running for president, the mistake was not in refusing to run in '91.
Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.
Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate.
For too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.
California is an unusual and electric kind of state - it's wonderful. All sorts of things happen there.
We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us.
To every New Yorker - and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for - I sincerely apologize.
The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.
Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship.
The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope.
You can't run a government solely on a business basis...Government should be human. It should have a heart.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
There are only two rules for being successful: one, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.
If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world.
I can think of no greater disaster to this country than to have the voters of it divide upon religious lines.
I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.
For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.
And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers.
One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.
What better day to lay the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower than the day our country declared its independence.
In Washington, when you’re a leader, you have to put aside partisan politics to do what’s right for the people.
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.
I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.
What I didn't do was pick one thing and keep saying it over and over again, so I could have gotten credit for it.
While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party.
I concentrated on a lot of things, so very few people saw me as an education governor, an infrastructure governor.
I don't ever recall having a political argument with Bob Grant. I've known him a long time. I've always liked him.
Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week.
The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets.
I have had this desire my whole life to prove people wrong, to show them I could do things they didn't think I could do.
Baseball is a diversion. It is therapy. It takes peoples minds off of everything that has happened, if just for a while.
I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.
Religion is extremely important in this democracy - so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights.
Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children's future. It is clear we must act.
Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.
The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.
It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.
You take care of you and your family first. Then you go to your neighborhood, and then you spread it on out within the community.
Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.
While 2013 will not see a major national election, we can be sure that most Republicans will obstruct and some Democrats will appease.
Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs.
The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.