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Whether it's veterans' disability claims, infrastructure projects, dam safety, or helping our farmers, what I am focused on is being useful for folks in the Hudson Valley.

In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.

Got to build that business base and then you can fund all the things people want: education, health care, strong law enforcement, roads, bridges, infrastructure - all those things flow from that economic base.

I created jobs and saved the taxpayers money on every road I built.

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.

With each new appropriations bill Congress considers, I have to ask myself, 'Is this a good way to spend taxpayer dollars?'

What I don't want to become numb to is wasting those taxpayer dollars.

I've developed several serious policy proposals to create jobs, reform Washington and reduce spending.