“I knew that good people who wanted to be a part of the American dream ...” — George Pataki Quote

“I knew that good people who wanted to be a part of the American dream have become trapped in dependency because the federal government and the state government had made it in their economic interest not to take a job because the benefits that they didn't work were better. I changed that.”

“We have been actively trying to have New York City host the 2012 Olympics.”

“I'm thinking about governing as the governor of this state, and that's what I'm going to do.”

“I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.”

“We had a strategy to dollarize. It was to take the assets of the Central Bank against the national government, transfer those securities to the market, and get dollars.”

“It's the role of a government to defend its soldiers and its citizens.”