"There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty." ― Andrew Cuomo Topic(s): War More From Andrew Cuomo "I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that’s what I’m doing." "Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people." "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." More In War "We didn’t start this war – the right wing did. We’re tired of seeing good-paying jobs shipped overseas. This fight is about the economy, it’s about jobs and it’s about rebuilding America."― James P. Hoffa "I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services."― John le Carre "There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult – to begin a war and to end it."― Alexis de Tocqueville