Albany Quotes

• I found that when I went from Albany to Savannah, that I needed to put that white rice away, and I needed to turn that into Savannah red rice because they were big into that sausage, tomato-y, bell pepper-y rice mixture.

  Paula Deen

  White, Tomatoes, Bells

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• 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

  New York, Government, Boss

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• If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.

  Ed Koch

  President, Politics, Bucks

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• I've been not only articulating the dissatisfaction with Albany, I've been acting on it. I've been very aggressive in bringing public integrity cases and public corruption cases and bringing cases against sitting legislators

  Andrew Cuomo

  Integrity, Acting, Sitting

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• 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

  People, Done, Plans

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• I have a cooking show that's coming on that I did in Albany. It will be on The Cooking Channel

  Dom DeLuise

  Cooking, Shows, Cooking Shows

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• We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.

  Carl Paladino

  Government, Self, People

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• There is no dispute that Albany needs to be changed. There is no dispute that the current situation in Albany is untenable. Nobody knows that better than I do.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Needs, Disputes, Currents

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• You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Dust, Wind

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 2, l. 30

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• Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom, Filth, Goodness

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 2, l. 38

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• Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.

  William Shakespeare

  Speak, Feels, Lear

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [325]

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• For many years now, I have been an outspoken supporter of civil and human rights for gay and lesbian people. Gays and lesbians stood up for civil rights in Montgomery, Selma, in Albany, Ga. and St. Augustine, Fla., and many other campaigns of the Civil Rights Movement. Many of these courageous men and women were fighting for my freedom at a time when they could find few voices for their own, and I salute their contributions.

  Coretta Scott King

  Fighting, Gay, Men

  Chicago Tribune, April 01, 1998.

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• My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.

  Gregory Maguire

  Jobs, New York, Ice Cream

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• Nice little town, Albany. They've got a State Capitol there, you know.

  Ralph Bellamy

  Nice, Littles, Towns

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• My steamboat voyage to Albany and back, has turned out rather more favorable than I had calculated. The distance from New York to Albany is one hundred and fifty miles; I ran it up in thirty-two hours, and down in thirty. I had a light breeze against me the whole way, both going and coming, and the voyage has been performed wholly by, the power of the steam engine. I overtook many sloops and schooners beating to windward and parted with them as if they had been at anchor. The power of propelling boats by steam is now fully proved.

  Robert Fulton

  New York, Distance, Light

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• 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

  People, Battle, Citizens

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• I don't see myself as some television star, I see myself as a girl from Albany.

  Megyn Kelly

  Girl, Stars, Television

  "Is Megyn on the way out? Kelly says she has 'great options' outside Fox News and a 'generous offer' to stay at the network as her longtime producer announces he is leaving her show" by Chris Spargo, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 19, 2016.

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• It reminded me of what Dad said after every snail’s crawl home from Albany when snow hit.“It’s New York, people. It’s winter. We get snow. If you aren’t prepared to deal with it, move to Miami.

  Kelley Armstrong

  New York, Dad, Moving

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• Anybody who suggests that I run for governor is no friend of mine. It's a terrible position, and besides, it requires living in Albany, which is small-town life at its worst.

  Ed Koch

  Running, No Friends, Towns

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• Women are afraid. It is unpopular to question the bible. They are creatures of tradition. They fear to question their position in the testament, as they feared to advocate suffrage fifty years ago. Now they are quarreling as to which were among the first to advocate it. You see they are not used to abuse as I am. In Albany, fifty years ago, when I went before the legislature to plead for a married woman's right to her own property, the women whom I met in society crossed the street rather than speak to me.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Years, Abuse, Atheism

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• Ireland starts for me with the end of The Dead, which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.

  John Jeremiah Sullivan

  Father, Office, Ends

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• My thoughts were to become a dentist when I first went to Albany State. I didn't know where I would end up, but I knew I'd be happy, and I knew I would have a nice life. That was always my goal, to have a nice, happy life. That's, to me, being rich.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Nice, Happy Life, Goal

  "Police Academy Week: a chat with actor/memoirist Steve Guttenberg". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2012.

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• I have gone to Albany constantly in my capacity as budget director, because I don't think the way the transit authority works with the City of New York is very appropriate.

  Joe Lhota

  New York, Thinking, Cities

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• A woman has, first of all, her duties in their own home, and there are many women particularly when they're young, who can do an active job in their community like being a mayor, but who cannot go to Washington or Albany or wherever the capital of the state is. There are others who can, can leave home, whose children are older and so forth. I think it all is a personal decision.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Jobs, Children, Home

  Source: archives.nbclearn.com

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• The First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights in the United States Constitution were being violated in Albany again and again - freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, the equal protection of the laws - I could count at least 30 such violations. Yet the president, sworn to uphold the Constitution, and all the agencies of the United States government at his disposal, were nowhere to be seen.

  Howard Zinn

  Agency, Rights, Government

  "You Can't Be Neutral on A Moving Train". Book by Howard Zinn (Ch. 4: "My Name is Freedom": Albany, Georgia), 1994.

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