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The actions against me were prosecutorial misconduct, they used cancel culture to effectively overturn an election.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I never resigned because I said I did something wrong, i said, I'm resigning because I don't want to be a distraction.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We once again have demonstrated that we've gone from the worst infection rate in the country to the best infection rate in the county.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We once again have demonstrated that we've gone from the worst infection rate in the country to the best infection rate in the country.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Yes, there is a very real possibility that we would roll back the reopening in those areas.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I understand the feelings about Christopher Columbus and some of his acts, which nobody would support, but the statue has come to represent and signify appreciation for the Italian-American contribution to New York.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Mr Floyd's murder was the breaking point, people are saying enough is enough, we must change.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
New York City last night was much better, the protesters were mainly peaceful, the police officers had the resources and the capacity to do their job.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The president held up the Bible the other day in Washington, D.C. Here in New York we actually read the Bible.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We're giving the store owners the right to say if you're not wearing a mask, you can't come in. That store owner has a right to protect themselves, that store owner has a right to protect the other patrons in that store.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
States that bore the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic account for one-third of the national GDP, how can you tell one-third of the country to go to heck?
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Now, people can speculate. People can guess. I think next week, I think two weeks, I think a month, im out of that business because we all failed at that business. Right? All the early national experts. Heres my projection model. Heres my projection model. They were all wrong. They were all wrong.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
There are a lot of variables. I understand that. We didnt know what the social distancing would actually amount to. I get it, but we were all wrong, so, Im sort of out of the guessing business, right? We watched the numbers. We prepare as the numbers drop, so when the number actually hits the threshold, were ready to go. We just finished that. Were in the midst of that with Long Island, Mid-Hudson region, etc. But... I dont want to guess.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
You can have a safe gathering of 10 people or you can have a wholly unsafe gathering of 10 people, if you don't have to be with a group of ten people don't be with a group of ten people.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
New York followed the presidents agenciesguidance, what New York did was follow what the Republican Administrationsaid to do. Thats not my attempt to politicize it. Its my attempt to depoliticize it. So dont criticize the state for following the presidents policy.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Its a sign that we are making real progress and I feel good about that.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It is the lower income communities, predominantly minorities where we are still seeing an increase in the numbers, the spread is continuing in those communities and that's where the new cases are coming from.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Total hospitalization is down. Good news. Net change is down, intubations is down and new hospitalizations are down, so it's a good day across the plate, the number of deaths are down -- 139. At a different time and place, if I had that news to deliver, that would be incredibly shocking to people. Only in this environment it is not shocking and relative to where we were, it's good news.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
If you can have economic activity without a crowd, that's great.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We don't want to see a spike, it depends on how people react and it depends on their personal behavior.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
That person got infected and went to the hospital or that person got infected and went home and infected the other people at home.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The infection rate among essential workers is lower than the general population and those new cases are coming predominantly from people who are not working and they are at home.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The tracing operation is tremendously large and challenging.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We are not so sure that is the fact anymore. Toddler, elementary school children are presenting symptoms similar to Kawasaki disease or toxic shock-like syndrome, it's very possible that this has been going on for several weeks and it hasn't been diagnosed as related to COVID.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
He is just phenomenal. The breadth of his ability, I mean, just look at all the roles he's played, he can do anything, right ? ' Deer Hunter,'' Cape Fear,' he can do comedy... how' bout' Taxi Driver ?'.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Oh, boy, that'd be a treat, i'm Andrew Cuomo. He's a genius.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We have paid a very high price for what we are going through. But the hope is that we learn from it and that we are the better for it, we don't want to go through all of this and replace what was there before.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The faster we reopen the lower the economic costs but the higher the human costs, because the more lives lost, that is the hard truth that we are all dealing with. Let's be honest about it.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We don't want to go through all of this and replace what was there before.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
A national health crisis that is killing tens of thousands of Americans is a time to put politics aside, if we can't get past this now, when can we ever get past it?
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
My gut says the weather is going to warm, people are bored, people want this over. They see the numbers going down. They can take false comfort, we never said it was over. We said the numbers are going down.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We have to be smart about this, again, I know... people are feeling emotional. Emotions can't drive our reopening process.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Those are two industries that employ a lot of people, we believe you can put the right precautions in place and learn the lessons from where we had been.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It is a major employer, these businesses can adopt to the new normal in terms of their employees and in terms of the processes they put in place.Cuomo said businesses considered.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Remember we have gone through hell and back over the past 60 or so days, what New Yorkers have done has been to save lives. But we have to stay vigilant. This is not over.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We can't open an attraction that might bring many people from outside the region and then overwhelm people in that region, you have a lot of pent-up demand. We have seen this before, where -- when we're not coordinated -- we have New York people going to Connecticut because Connecticut has parks or water slide access that's open.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The more we know, the more reliably we can achieve the goal of total harm minimization : the reduction of health and life lost both to the virus, and to societal collapse, to the irreducible minimum, we should proceed in stages because that enables us to adjust and refine, even as we make progress toward normalcy.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Some regions upstate have a problem that's comparable with parts of the Midwest.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
You want to talk about a snapshot of humanity. You have five masks, what do you do, do you keep all five ? Do you hide the five masks and keep them for yourselves and others ? No, you send one mask to New York to help a nurse or doctor.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
That is an intelligent division of labor - let each layer of government do what it does best.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
It's in some ways an outrageous goal, but this is New York, and we're used to outrageous.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We needed help, and they were there, that is an undeniable fact.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
How many times do you want me to say 'thank you,' but I'm saying 'thank you' for doing your job, this was your role as president.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Is there any funding so I can do these things that you want us to do? No. That is passing the buck without passing the bucks.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The good news is it means we can control the virus. We can control the spread, and we did not know for sure that we could do that.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
That is still continuing at a really, really tragic rate.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It says the federal government does not have absolute power, it says the exact opposite of what the president said. It says that would be a king.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There has been a laxness in social distancing, especially during this past weekend, that is just wholly unacceptable.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's very simple : A person comes into the ICU unit. They need the ventilator, or they die. It's that basic proposition.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Obviously, nobody would say that this was the best way to do it.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It was coming here, we have been behind it from Day One since it got here. And we've been playing catch-up. You don't win playing catch-up. We have to get ahead of it.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I am not engaging the president in politics, my only goal is to engage the president in partnership.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Not just people taking a couple or three, I mean just actual thefts of those products.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I spoke to the president about the ship coming up and the four sites, I didnt speak to him about any quarantine, i havent had those conversations, I dont even know what that means.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I dont even know what that means. I dont know how that could be legally enforceable and from a medical point of view I dont know what you would be accomplishing, but I can tell you I dont even like the sound of it, not even understanding what it is I dont like the sound of it.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
This will be an enforceable quarantine, but hopefully we wont need it.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
There is no other way for us to get these ventilators, we've tried everything else. The only way we can obtain these ventilators is from the federal government. Period.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
FEMA says' we're sending 400 ventilators,' really ? What am I going to do with 400 ventilators when I need 30,000 ? You pick the 26,000 who are going to die because you only sent 400 ventilators.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
New York City is the natural for it to increase because of the density, westchester was an anomaly -- that whole New Rochelle situation.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Currently, when states are doing it, we are competing against other states. In some ways we're savaging other states. I'm trying to buy masks. I'm competing with California and Illinois and Florida.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I don't think you can really do a policy like that just in one part of the state. So I don't think it works, as a matter of fact, I'm going so far that I don't even think you can do a statewide policy.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
As a matter of fact, I'm going so far that I don't even think you can do a statewide policy.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This is exactly what they do. Deploy the Army Corps of Engineers to come work with states to build temporary medical facilities. Get us backup beds so when the hospital is overwhelmed, we can have some of the people who are in the hospital beds go to a backup medical facility, if you don't do it, you know what is going to happen : You're going to overwhelm the hospitals.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We are way behind in testing, there'll be plenty of time to do a retrospective. We need to increase testing as quickly as possible and get the volume as high as possible. The more people you test, the more people you can isolate.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This will be a period of disruption for the local community, it is a dramatic action, but it is the largest cluster in the country. And this is literally a matter of life and death.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
If you are not a member of the vulnerable population then there is no reason for excess anxiety.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
These are people who go for an in-person federal interview with all sorts of background information.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The hateful activities at Syracuse University are most disturbing, not only to the Syracuse University community, but to the greater community of New York, they have no been handled in a manner that reflects this states aggressive opposition to such odious, reckless, and reprehensible behavior. That these actions should happen on the campus of a leading New York university makes this situation even worse.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The goal of this law is simple : to prevent cigarettes and vaping products from getting into the hands of our youth, creating an addiction to a deadly habit, we are taking aggressive action to make sure the decades of progress we've made to combat tobacco addiction is not undone by a sharp rise in e-cigarette use among younger New Yorkers.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It is undeniable that vaping companies are deliberately using flavors like bubblegum, Captain Crunch and cotton candy to get young people hooked on e-cigarettes - it's a public health crisis and it ends today.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Common sense says if you don't know what you're smoking, don't smoke it, and right now, we don't know what you're smoking in a lot of these vaping substances.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's quite simple: Don't do it, don't do it because we don't know if it's safe.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
And right now, we don't know what you're smoking in a lot of these vaping substances.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
By providing individuals who have suffered the consequences of an unfair marijuana conviction with a path to have their records expunged and by reducing draconian penalties, we are taking a critical step forward in addressing a broken and discriminatory criminal justice process.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This bill gives Congress the ability to fulfill its constitutional responsibilities, strengthen our democratic system and ensure that no one is above the law.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The people of New York State choose the attorney general. So his suggestion that New York State's my attorney general is just incorrect. I don't have an attorney general.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I understand freedom of religion, i have heard the anti-vaxxers theory, but I believe both are overwhelmed by the public health risk.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
If you're a New Yorker, you have a level of PTSD from 9/11.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
As our federal government continues to support the dying fossil fuel industry, deny climate change, and roll back environmental protections, New York is leading the nation with bold climate action to protect our planet and our communities.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Time and again the Trump administration puts corporations and polluters' interests ahead of public health and the environment, since the EPA has failed to hold GE accountable for fulfilling its obligation to restore the river, New York State will take any action necessary to protect our waterways.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Weve set up reserves, but this is worse than we had anticipated.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
It's early yet to find out what she actually produces, you know, New York is very basic in our approach, we're sort of, 'What have you brought home for us lately?' I think it's a little early in the session yet for the evaluation.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
God issues fault, she was against it, a number of people were against it, but she did not have an official government role. There were people who had an official government role who were against it and I think they have more of the liability.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We have a significant Republican population, i'm in my third term, so you can be a progressive and you can win with Democrats and Republicans. So it depends on how its done.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
[ A ] small group [ of ] politicians put their own narrow political interests above their community -- which poll after poll showed overwhelmingly supported bringing Amazon to Long Island City -- the states economic future and the best interests of the people of this state, the New York State Senate has done tremendous damage. They should be held accountable for this lost economic opportunity.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We need a full accounting of the facts to confirm businesses are abiding by New York consumer protection laws and to help make sure this type of privacy breach does not happen again.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The old law had criminal penalties. It was written that the doctor or professional could be held criminally liable.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
People come to New York, they come to see the sights, and it's important at this dark time in our country to keep the torch on the Statue of Liberty lit, metaphorically.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We must also end the needless and unjust criminal convictions and the debilitating criminal stigma.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We have not reached greatness, we will reach greatness when every America is fully engaged, we will reach greatness when discrimination and stereotyping against women, 51 percent of our population, is gone.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The President says,' I'm fighting with Gov. Andrew Cuomo but it's just Gov. Cuomo that I'm fighting with, just Gov. Cuomo -- everybody else agrees with me,'.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We’re not going to make America great again. It was never that great.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
New York is working to end the dangerous practices that threaten our natural resources.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The people of New York deserve an open, transparent election process they can trust, and these exercises are an integral part of restoring voter confidence and the integrity of our election infrastructure.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
You have states that have legalized it now…. It is no longer a question of legal or illegal. It’s legal in Massachusetts. It may be legal in New Jersey. Which means for all intents and purposes it’s going to be here anyway.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
In New York, we won't be intimidated by frivolous court actions from a group of lobbyists bent on chipping away at commonsense gun safety laws that many responsible gun owners actually support. We have an obligation to protect New Yorkers, and this sham suit will do nothing to stop New Yorkers.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
My personal opinion is that, given the damning pattern of facts and corroboration laid out in the article, I do not believe it is possible for Eric Schneiderman to continue to serve as Attorney General, and for the good of the office, he should resign.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I believe that this is the best plan the state has produced in decades.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
New Yorkers don't like to be inconvenienced, if the forecast doesn't turn out as much snow, then they are hanging me in effigy today.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
You make the best call you can, given the forecast that you have, new Yorkers don't like to be inconvenienced ... If the forecast doesn't turn out as much snow, then they are hanging me in effigy today.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The MTA is the lifeblood of New York, this MTA Capital Plan is what we need to make the system smarter and more resilient.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Today we are all incredibly saddened by the news from Carey Gabay's family. I ask that all New Yorkers please join me in keeping both Carey and his family in their thoughts and prayers during this difficult time.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
You have certain voices saying rent regulations should just go away, that is not going to happen any time soon.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The first order of business is to get these killers back. This was the first breakout since 1865 and I want to make sure it's the last.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
You look at the precision of the operation. It was truly extraordinary.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Our meeting with Minister Malmierca was very exciting and informative, there is much hope for the future.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Whatever she does, she's gonna be an overwhelming success, i hope she does something really, really, really big.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
He is in the heart and mind of every person who is here, new York governor is here and New York governor is here, and New York governor inspiration and New York governor legacy and New York governor experience is what has brought this state to this point. So let's give him a round of applause.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I somehow stumbled through and became a governor, i’ve told you that story. It was all luck. Luck and nothing else.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
In fact, Mr. President, Shining City on a Hill is Shining City on a Hill -- Mr. President you ought to know that this nation is more a ‘ Tale of Two Cities ’ than it is just a ‘ Shining City on a Hill, ’.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The threats against the New York police are insults to the law-abiding and won't be tolerated.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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