Andrew Cuomo Quotes

Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.

Do you work for the government, any government?” "I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.

If you're in government, the right thing to do is be focused on solving real problems and asking what's the best solution to a particular problem.

I actually think that working in the federal government, or state or local, is one of the most significant things that a technical person can do.

It's not really the job of a public servant to inspire, but to get the job that the people demand done. The Democrats think that if they have hope and are inspired, things will get better, but they actually won't.

My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work.

I was always complaining that there weren't enough good people going into public service, so I figured I had to get behind someone I found so compelling.

You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.

We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.

We are living in an era of transformation where we will all have to reckon with a number of revolutionary changes and challenges for the public sector. In the move towards globalization, the public is becoming more and more knowledgeable about their rights and requirements. As such, the need to revisit our traditional ways of offering public services is inescapable, if we want to ensure the establishment of a more caring public service.

Government does not have a monopoly on compassion.

The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is 'citizen.' This is our republic. Let us keep it!

There's no greater challenge and there is no greater honor than to be in public service.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.

All I wanted was to be involved in politics and government.

You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.

I have a lifelong devotion to public service.

What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes.

The one thing the Victorians really believed in was philanthropy. I think we've forgotten the obligation to be philanthropic. I think we need smaller government, but I want to make it clear I'm not the Sarah Palin of the Cotswolds.

I think we should just tip the government if it does a good job. Fifteen percent is the standard tip, isn't it?

I believe that smaller government is better government. But I also believe that in the areas where government does play a legitimate role, we should demand that it is done better.

Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes - this is the central job of government. it's why all of us are here serving our state and our people.