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I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.
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There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.
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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.
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Lesson from Pataki’s success is: Use the political moment.
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I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.
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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.
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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.
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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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Very few people go into politics to be reviled.
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If I weren’t doing the politics, I wouldn’t be doing my job.
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People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.
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I’m in politics. I’m in government, so nothing surprises me.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Marriage equality changed life for people.
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I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman’s right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.
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I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that’s what I’m doing.
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I don’t know people who don’t say, boy the government is working better now.
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I’m in politics. I’m in government, so nothing surprises me.