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I'm the most independent and conservative Democrat in New York State. -- Brian Higgins
We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation. -- Michael Baden
I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years. -- Mario Cuomo
I spent my childhood in northern New York State, and like many kids, bugs and other critters fascinated me. -- Romulus Whitaker
Writing is still my main career, but I would love, for instance, to serve in the New York State Assembly. -- Mark Helprin
While I was in junior high, I wrote an entire essay in rhyme about manufacturing in New York State. In high school, I won a Scholastic poetry contest. -- Jane Yolen
In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time. -- Suzanne Vega
My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland. -- Alan Hovhaness
I did have a big following in the upper New York area. I was at the New York State Fair a few times over the years. I have areas that I say are my areas. -- Bobby Vinton
New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy. -- Adam Savage
My tax dollar, which goes to New York State Council on the Arts, is by and large only spent to fund people from the state of New York! And you want to be the cultural capital of the world? -- Robert Wilson
I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man. -- Stephen Sondheim
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. -- Andrew Cuomo
New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush. -- Andrew Cuomo
We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State. -- Major Owens
The New York State Freeway's closed, man. Far out! -- Arlo Guthrie
New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. -- Andrew Cuomo
Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough! -- Michael Bloomberg
Mark Twain married the daughter of one of New York State's leading Abolitionists, Jervis Langdon, who helped Frederick Douglass who became the great Negro leader to escape from slavery. -- Hal Holbrook
Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might as well talk about a summer vacation on Mars. -- Clarence Darrow
How come regional pandering only works in one direction, right? You never see a Southern politician trying to win votes in New York State by saying, 'I read books and make a mean vegan meatloaf.' -- Bill Maher
Fracking is our biggest enemy right now in the U.S. Actually, not just in the U.S., because all our water systems are interconnected. Whether you're reading this in New York State or in Japan, fracking is screwing you over. -- Ian Somerhalder
I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New York State, to give me some practice in target shooting so that if the need arose I would know how to use the gun. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
I grew up outside of DC, New York state, and Connecticut. -- Jim Coleman
We're going to restructure the state government into a government that's responsive to the needs of New York state taxpayers. -- Carl Paladino
When I left, there were over 1 million fewer people on welfare in New York state than when I took office, replacing dependency with opportunity. -- George Pataki
New York state ethics rules prohibit lawyers from soliciting gifts from clients 'for the benefit of the lawyer or a person related to the lawyer.' -- Bill Dedman
New York state and federal election laws allow us to make unlimited expenditures on behalf of or in opposition to candidates so long as we do not coordinate those expenditures. -- Tom Golisano
The toughest trail I ever ran was the Escarpment in the Catskills of New York State. This was an 18-mile race through Rip Van Winkle country, routed through boulder fields, across angular juttings of granite and along a path with an unrelenting barrage of roots, rocks and mud, all of it hidden under slick leaves and dangling nettles. -- Don Kardong
I'm in a New York state of mind -- Billy Joel
I see a New York that is once again the empire state. -- Carl Paladino
The New York Times is the official leak of the State Department. -- Mort Sahl
New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone. -- Walter Tevis
I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times, Nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind -- Nas
Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard. -- Ed Markey
Let's make New York the safest state in America - that must be our goal. Let's achieve it together. -- George Pataki
The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again. -- Andrew Cuomo
the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story. -- Craig L. Rice
You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks...although the latter is much less realistic. -- Kenneth Lonergan
In 1887, Oregon became the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday, with Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York quickly following suit. -- Brendan I. Koerner
When I'm in New York I look at the Empire State Building and feel as though it belongs to me ... or is it vice versa? -- Fay Wray
In New York, the average total state and local tax burden is $5,260 for every man, woman and child. That's by far the highest in the country. -- Tom Golisano
New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but to the United States. -- James F. Cooper
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I therefore shared fully the intense chagrin of the New York and other State delegations when, on the third ballot, Abraham Lincoln received a larger vote than Seward. -- Henry Villard
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