Kathy Hochul

This young woman had already endured something that is utterly unspeakable, and then at every turn she was failed by people and institutions with an obligation to protect her.

Every parent who sends their child off to college expects them to be safe, and if something terrible happens, the student deserves to know that the people they turn to will listen to them, protect them, and fight for them. That is the bare…

If someone is too intoxicated to consent, it should not matter whether they chose to use drugs or alcohol. Voluntary intoxication is not a license for sexual assault or gang-rape. Period.

I’m deeply disturbed at Cornell University’s police and how they handled this.

I am deeply disturbed by how Cornell University police and the Tompkins County district attorney’s office handled allegations of a 2024 sexual assault at the university.

The decision by Matthew Van Houten, the Tompkins county district attorney, not to prosecute the 2024 case, and the questions raised in recent days over the Cornell police department’s investigation of the allegations, have undercut my…

This action will ensure that the matter is fully and thoroughly investigated without conflict or bias, and handled independently with the rigor that this matter demands.

The young woman at the center of this case deserves to know that every fact will be examined and justice pursued.

This has, in turn, undercut my faith, and the public's faith, in the District Attorney's ability to effectively investigate and prosecute the case at this time.

This culture has to stop. And in New York, we’re going to do everything we can to stop it.

While we have some of the toughest laws on sexual assault on college campuses right here in New York, I think we can do better," she said.

When the people building the world’s most powerful AI systems are sounding the alarm about potentially catastrophic risks, we have a responsibility to listen and act...

The terrorist attacks on September 11 forever reshaped our city and state, and every year on the anniversary New Yorkers feel the weight of unimaginable tragedy and honor the lives lost.

Release the $87 million you owe us. Because if you don’t release the counterterrorism funding, you’re betraying every family that lost someone on 9/11.

Don’t undermine our public safety efforts. Don’t defund the police who thwart terror attacks. Don’t play political games with people’s lives.

Renaming the lake was deflecting from the real needs of Americans.

I urge the president to mend relationships with Canada so our farmers and our consumers and our families do not continue suffering from this inane war over tariffs.

My state would not be calling it Lake America.

New York won’t be calling it that.

Because we need local cops hunting down criminals, not kindergartners. Breaking up drug rings, not breaking up families. Arresting gun runners, not grandmas.

And to those suing us, those trying to block the implementation of this law who’ve tried before and failed, our law has already been upheld by the courts, but if you try me again, I say, bring it on.

No county executive should think that they are above the law in the state of New York.

Needlessly picking fights with our allies and raising prices here at home. That’s Trump’s economic policy in a nutshell.

That appears to me on its face to be a violation of civil rights to cause that kind of physical harm to an individual regardless of what the offense may be.