15 Quotes by Kathy Hochul

The most important thing is the lieutenant governor and governor relationship be a true partnership.

I will listen to people, but then I will take very decisive action.

I want every young woman, just like I was a high school assembly intern, to realize that this is a place where they have a role. We need their voices. We need that diversity. We're getting there. We're making progress on more elected women.

But at the end of the day, I want people to say that I played a major role in restoring people's confidence in the ability of state government to be on their side, to fight for them, and again - I'll say it again - to get things done.

I love upstate, I love downstate, I love the whole state.

I have a very focused agenda. And I hold myself to the highest standards. I judge myself more harshly than any voter, or any New Yorker, will.

I'm hard-wired to view everything that Albany does through the lens of a local town, city, county official.

Authority doesn't have to be concentrated in me when I'm hiring outstanding professionals who know their jobs. I will be there if there's something that's not following what I want. But I also know that day to day, they're the ones that have to be accountable.

I will have no distractions in my administration because we focused on doing what's best for the people of the state.