About George Pataki:
George Elmer Pataki is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 53rd Governor of New York (1995–2006). A member of the Republican Party, Pataki was a lawyer who was elected Mayor of his home town of Peekskill, later going on to be elected to State Assembly, then State Senate. In 1994, he ran for Governor against three-term incumbent Mario Cuomo, defeating him by over a three-point margin as part of the Republican Revolution of 1994. Pataki, succeeding a three-term Governor, would himself be elected to three consecutive terms, and was one of only three Republican governors of New York elected since 1923, the others being Thomas Dewey and Nelson Rockefeller.
Let's make New York the safest state in America - that must be our goal. Let's achieve it together.
George PatakiOn that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.
George PatakiI'm thinking about governing as the governor of this state, and that's what I'm going to do.
George PatakiBut, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act.
George Pataki