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Quotes About New York State

The thing is that Chuck Schumer, for all his power and influence, is a pretty pathetic figure. You go around New York State, and people make jokes about him and talk about how he shows up at the New York State Fair and has a staffer carrying a big sign saying 'Come meet Chuck Schumer.'
~ Wendy Long
I've lived in New York state almost my entire life, so my votes never count.
~ Megyn Kelly
On Wednesday, September 11, 2002 (9-11-02), the New York State Lottery winning number was 911.
~ Raymond Fowler
Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough!
~ Michael Bloomberg
I come from a family that has a long history in the legal community of New York and New York state.
~ David Zabel
Most of the time, the bars were tipped off, so patrons scattered and proprietors hid the alcohol (most operated without a liquor license, partially because it was illegal to sell alcohol to LGBT individuals in New York State until 1966). If they were arrested, most went with police quietly.
~ Jean M. Twenge
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
Everything I do is in a New York state of mind. I'm indebted to preserving the sound of the city.
~ DJ Premier
that path. He said he had seen it yesterday. "It's some old trail," he said. That night by the fire Laura asked again when she would see a papoose, but Pa didn't know. He said you never saw Indians unless they wanted you to see them. He had seen Indians when he was a boy in New York State, but Laura never had. She knew they were wild men with red skins, and their hatchets were called tomahawks. Pa
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Nine o'clock in the morning, the World Trade Center on its own is the sixth largest city in New York State. Bigger than Albany. Only sixteen acres of land, but a daytime population of 130,000 people.
~ Lee Child
Thus, in June 2019, New York State passed the most ambitious set of climate targets in the country, including carbon-free electricity by 2040 and a net zero emissions economy by 2050.
~ Robert Pollin
Department of Energy data confirms that New York State's per capita energy consumption is next to last in the country, which largely reflects public transit use in New York City.
~ Edward L. Glaeser
The big Ford van had been travelling non-stop since the last bathroom break and Travis had no idea how long ago that had been. He knew only that they had finally turned off that boring four-lane highway and that, far in the distance over the trees, the high green bridge over the St. Lawrence River was now visible. Beyond lay New York State and the road to Lake Placid. Finally.
~ Roy MacGregor
For Alex to be enveloped into one of New York State's blue-ribbon families helped put to bed a lifetime of doubts and depression about his own dubious birthright.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
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
When New York passed its Internet sales-tax law, Amazon's sales in New York State dropped 10 percent over the next quarter, according to a person familiar with Amazon's finances at the time.
~ Brad Stone
The attorney general of New York state has a special authority and responsibility to preserve the integrity of businesses and nonprofits in New York under the state's own laws as well as under the U.S. Constitution.
~ Zephyr Teachout
We're going to restructure the state government into a government that's responsive to the needs of New York state taxpayers.
~ Carl Paladino
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
We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation.
~ Michael Baden
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
Here was a dyed-in-the-brine Cape Cod, Massachusetts, man who dropped into New York State on a carpetbag and used his slain brother's gilded connections to help win a Senate seat.
~ Gail Sheehy
Trump University had neither a license nor a charter from New York State certifying it as an institution of higher education.
~ Eric Schneiderman