Andrew Cuomo Quotes

The mandate given to me was one of change.

Trust gives you the permission to give people direction, get everyone aligned, and give them the energy to go get the job done. Trust enables you to execute with excellence and produce extraordinary results. As you execute with excellence and deliver on your commitments, trust becomes easier to inspire, creating a flywheel of performance.

If you're running on fumes, you get to a point of diminishing results. Get some rest.

I see a New York that is once again the empire state.

Spring is a true reconstructionist.

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.

Paris must not be a cemetery. I do not wish to reign over the dead.

Rest is obviously a key in the offseason.

The Prime Minister of this country should be 100 percent efficient at all time.

We are out to rebuild the world.

Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.

We have to breathe new life into Europe.

We're going to make that Lone Star shine again.

A leader can't make excuses. There has to be quality in everything you do. Off the court, on the court, in the classroom.

The one great thing about football is that whatever happens it will manifest itself on the pitch. If it's right, you'll see it on the pitch, if it's wrong, it will be on the pitch. In business you can get fellas who are doing crooked deals and nobody knows anything about it. There is an ultimate honesty about football. Politics is part of the lying game, I wouldn't trust any of them. In football you can hide for a while, but ultimately the truth comes out. I always loved that.

You look worldwide for the great leaders, and they're pretty thin on the ground, and of course the problem is unless you're squeaky, squeaky clean, something is going to come out of the cupboard. Most people aren't squeaky clean. Most people have fallen by the wayside once or twice in their lives, and because the world is so transparent now, I think they're very fearful of running for office. It's a huge shame, because often people who have really lived and are amazing people can be brought down by a past indiscretion.

With destruction comes renovation.

Presidential trust is something, that's perishable and it's precious. And once a president loses it, it's not a question of whether it's conflict of interests laws or there aren't conflict of interests laws.

Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.

What we say in private we must be willing to say with a heart burning with love and honor before the face of our leaders. If not, we will poison our spirits and it will manifest in the presence of our leaders.

Change is as good as a rest. It keeps me fresh.

I expect you will find that change is the best kind of rest.

Do not do that which you would not have known.