Our climate is changing. And while the increase in extreme weather we have experienced in New York City and around the world may or may not be the result of it, the risk that it may be – given the devastation it is wreaking – should be enough to compel all elected leaders to take immediate action.
Entrepreneurship is having an idea to do something great and not entirely have a plan on how to do it but the drive and will power to make it work.
Working collectively and collaboratively is the difference between mediocrity by yourself or success as a team. You have to share the pain and the responsibility and if you do then you will also share in the rewards.
Progress is not inevitable. It’s up to us to create it.
Partisanship may be King in Washington – but the rest of us don’t have to pay tribute.
Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough!
Is your company so small you have to do everything for yourself? Wait until you’re so big that you can’t. That’s worse.
I’d be happy to provide advice if anybody asked me no matter who the President is.
I’d be derelict in my duty if I didn’t go and continue to use every advantage that I can to promote New York’s cause.
I never lie, so if somebody asked me a question, I told them.
Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff.
Government should not tell you what to do unless there’s a compelling public purpose.
Nobody’s going to go home for a year and come back. Nobody could ever enforce that. Nobody in their right mind would ever try to do it.
In New York City, a lot of people think ‘the great outdoors’ is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.
There are lots of threats to you in the world. There’s the threat of a heart attack for genetic reasons. You can’t sit there and worry about everything. Get a life.
I was the one of those students who made the top half of the class possible.
In 1975, Congress passed a law requiring fuel efficiency standards to double over 10 years, with incremental targets that auto manufacturers were required to meet. That was the responsible approach, and it worked. But since 1985, we’ve done nothing – even as technology has moved at light speed.
Any friend of fossil is a friend of mine. We’ve got to do everything we can to get people out of their automobiles and into mass transit.
What you’ve got to do is be honest. Say what you believe. Give it to them straight. Just don’t wuss out.
Leading from the front: It’s what built America. But these days, the federal government isn’t at the front – it’s cowering in the back corner of the room, ducking responsibility and hoping no one notices.