Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York and the author of All Things Possible: Setbacks and Success in Politics and Life (Harper, 2014), makes his case for reelection.

On whether the Governor or anyone on his staff has been subpoenaed in the U.S. Attorney’s Moreland Commission investigation:

I made some comments at one time about his [U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara] investigation and it was suggested that I refer all comments to the US attorney which is what I'm doing. We've cooperated ..... anyone on my team has been told to cooperate with the US attorney.

On campaign finance, responding to this story by WNYC’s Andrea Bernstein about Governor Cuomo’s own campaigning: 

"Well that's not the problem Brian, it's worse than that. You look at the newspapers today, you have independent expenditure committees all over the place. Millions and millions of dollars, very little disclosure, you don't know who they are, you can't even tell by the name who they are. And there are no limits! And that's part of the federal law. I support public finance, but the people who support public finance have the old paradigm in mind where public finance means you're going to limit the money that comes into politics. Public finance doesn't mean that anymore. You look at public finance and you still have all these independent expenditure committees that can raise unlimited funds by law with very little disclosure and you can have multiple quote unquote independent expenditure are committees. and by the way independent expenditure are committees run by associates of the candidate, so the whole system is a mockery.

The major issue which is stopping the unregulated, unrestricted flow of money through these independent expenditure committees. That's the problem with the system. If we don't remedy that you're putting band-aids on multiple bullet wounds. 

On whether the Governor is urging people to vote for him on the Women’s Equality Party line, instead of the Democratic party or any other lines:

You get an email from me hopefully asking you to vote on several lines. The Women's Equality party...agenda is something that's very important to me. I think it can be a national precedent and it empowers women in a way that's never been done. […] This is the home of Seneca Falls, let the women make their voice heard, and that's what the women's party's about. You'll be getting an email that says please vote for the school bonds issue to invest 2 billion dollars in technology in schools. Obviously the main party is the Democratic party, I'm also on the Independent party, I'm also on the Working Families Party.

I want people to vote on the Women's Equality Party, that would be publicizing the women's equality agenda which is something that I want to get passed. I couldn't get it passed last year and I'm looking to build support for that agenda. And I said when it failed last year I was going to make a major issue of it in this campaign, and if the legislature wants to tell the women of this state to go to heck I'm gonna let the women of this state know that they were told to go to heck and that's what the Women's Equality Party is all about.

On whether he is trying to hurt the progressive Working Families Party by supporting the Women’s Equality Party:

I think that's a really tortured analysis. There are women, to say to women in this state You should consider organizing to make your voice heard when the women just had their right to choose, which is a fundamental right for women, Brian, and to say to them you shouldn't organize to make your voice heard so the legislature passes the women's equality act for some tortured political analysis, I think misses the point. […]

There are Democratic women who vote on the Democratic line who can vote on the Women's Equality Line, there are Republican women who can vote on the Women's Equality Line, it's 50,000 votes...there's going to be over 4 million votes cast. But I would be less concerned, and I am less concerned, with the internal political machinations of who has political power and I'm more interested in social change, Brian. And I'm more interested in passing the Women's Equality Act.

On the difference between Governor Cuomo and his Republican Opponent, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino:

“I don't think this race is about these little internal political games. I think it's a stark ideological contrast. Mr. Astorino is an ultraconservative - he wants to raise taxes on the rich and he wants to cut services for the poor. He's against gay marriage. He's against a woman's right to choose. He's against common core. He wants to repeal the gun law that we put in place that makes NY the safest state in terms of gun laws that we passed after Sandy Hook. He wants to allow guns to be taught in schools, in elementary school, teach our kids how to use guns in elementary school.  I mean, that's the philosophy that we're talking about here. And I understand the ultraconservative theory, it does not apply in a place like New York. This is a man whose being sued by the fed government for discrimination in his own county for five years by the Department of Housing and Urban Development for exclusionary zoning. […] So this is really a night and day difference in ideologies between the progressive tradition that is New York and the ultraconservatives who are trying to take over Washington and bring it state-wide and nation-wide.”

On the concerns public health experts have that the state's Ebola quarantine policy has increased irrational fears: 

Governor Cuomo: "The public health experts I presume are doctors and nurses who you're talking to, who obviously don't like the policy because they would be affected by it. The policy is -- where Docs without Borders now has a policy that says you don't go back to work for three weeks and you take your temperature twice a day... our policy would say you don't go back to work AND you stay at home but we'll pay your salary and the doctors don't like the part about having to stay at home for obvious reasons. I understand their concern. I don't think it's that big a hardship. The people of the state of New York overwhelmingly support it - poll came out today, 84% of the people in NY want a 3 week home quarantine, 94% of the people in the nation want a home quarantine, and I think that actually gives people comfort. I think the lack of a policy, I think a policy that they think makes no sense, I think the experience that they went through where we went on this hunt to find out where the person had been on what subway at what time at what restaurant and had people wondering did they happen to come in contact, I think that's what spreads fear. And I think the certainty we gave, the common sense approach that we gave actually calms people. And that shows. We don't have to guess. After Dr. Craig Spencer and that whole episode, travel on the subways, commutation, stayed exactly the same. There was not an iota of a drop in circulation. Because people felt safe. They heard the policy, it made sense to them, they agree with it, 80%, and that's what brought the calm so I'm proud of it."