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.

Andrew Cuomo

There are 10,000 local governments in the state of New York. Ten thousand! Town, village, lighting district, water district, sewer district, a special district to count the other districts in case you missed a district.

Andrew Cuomo

government new-york water

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

Andrew Cuomo

summer father son

If there's a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become a physical metaphor for the isolation and alienation of our people.

Andrew Cuomo

citizens battle people

The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.

Andrew Cuomo

life-and-death information needs

Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.

Andrew Cuomo

authority students school

Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations,' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.

Andrew Cuomo

agendas confusing political

Climate change is a controversial subject, right? People will debate whether there is climate change... that's a whole political debate that I don't want to get into. I want to talk about the frequency of extreme weather situations, which is not political.

Andrew Cuomo

political weather people

I know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. I'm angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done?

Andrew Cuomo

albany done people

I never thought I would be divorced.

Andrew Cuomo

divorced would-be

I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.

Andrew Cuomo

unions benefits reality

I don't know people who don't say 'boy, the government is working better now.'

Andrew Cuomo

government boys people

I'm going to change everything you believe about HUD.

Andrew Cuomo

believe

There's no such thing as a 100-year flood.

Andrew Cuomo

flood years

Anyone who says there is not a change in weather patterns is denying reality.

Andrew Cuomo

patterns weather reality

If I'm breathing in 2016, I'll be happy.

Andrew Cuomo

cynical breathing being-happy

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance.

Andrew Cuomo

upside-down down-and new-york

A governor can be a very good friend to people. A governor can be a formidable force.

Andrew Cuomo

good-friend force people

It's time for the people of the Empire State to strike back.

Andrew Cuomo

empires states people

I believe global warming and climate change are real threats to our planet.

Andrew Cuomo

climate real believe

Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.

Andrew Cuomo

reasonable compromise fighting