Audio Excerpt 1
This is about creating jobs and nurturing opportunity, and it is a significant step forward in our mutual commitment to revitalize struggling economies throughout this State. Equally important, we are providing a measure of security to working New Yorkers, particularly those whose occupations pose a real threat of injury and the potential lack of a paycheck.

Audio Excerpt 2
This is the government that New Yorkers want: where the divergent interests within this state can come together, work through their differences, strive to reach consensus, and forge agreements that are first and foremost about bettering the State as a whole.