Dysfunction Quote by Michael Bloomberg

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national…

— Andrew Cuomo

We're going to restructure the state government into a government that's responsive to the needs of New York state taxpayers.

— Carl Paladino

“How New York has fallen off during the last forty years! Its intellect and culture have been diluted and swamped by a great flood-tide…

— Stephen Birmingham

What happens in New York affects national policy in very significant ways.

— Zephyr Teachout

New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don't know what the hell…

— Henry Ford

New York has a tremendous number of people but the quality of its politics is unspeakable. By contrast, in a smaller township, I find…

— Murray Bookchin

The trouble with New York today is that it's lost its balance. I love the new, greener New York, but it takes all kinds…

— Brian Cox

The status quo is clearly broken, and we must strive for bigger, bolder solutions that will provide New Yorkers with the support they need…

— Letitia James

In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're…

— Carl Paladino

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should…

— David Dinkins

In order for New York to not only get back to where we were, but to finally fulfill our potential as the greatest city…

— Isaac Wright Jr

New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.

— Eddie Huang