"Powerful people are more likely to interrupt others, not look at people when they are speaking, and to be rude, hostile, and humiliating."

"They are more self-centered, losing the capacity to even guess what others feel or want; power seems to take away not only compassion but the ability to even see other people’s needs. Not to put too fine a point on it, but people who are given power in psychology experiments are more likely to touch others inappropriately. New York’s current constitutional structure, in other words, sets up the state for abuse.... New York needs some constitutional restructuring, as a matter of both culture and law. The Legislature, not the executive branch, should be leading on the budget..... [Cuomo] never acted as a governor who thought about the real needs of the people of New York, never worried about those hurt by crumbling infrastructure, or what it was like to be a child in an overcrowded classroom—or how it felt to have your loved one’s death in a nursing home covered up. As his pathetic final performance made clear, for him it was always about his small, selfish, soul. Like Richard Nixon, he resigned whining. What we should learn from Andrew Cuomo’s tenure is that no one should ever be given such power to play with people’s lives. The first step toward that transformation is for the Legislature to proceed with his impeachment. Cuomo wants to resign so the facts won’t all be laid out—and so he can run for office again. He doesn’t deserve that kindness...."

Writes Zephyr Teachout, in "The Real Question Is Why Andrew Cuomo Took So Long to Fall/New York hasn’t had a governor leave in dignity in years—and that is not a fluke" (The Nation). 

Cuomo said he'd leave in 2 weeks, but remember that Trump was impeached when he had only 1 week left in his term. The proceedings continued after his term ended, until February 13th. It was stressed at the time that impeachment was not merely to remove a person from office. There was the same idea that Teachout stresses — laying out the facts and preventing running for office again.

On the subject of Cuomo's running for office again, here's something in the NYT this morning, "Cuomo Has $18 Million in Campaign Cash. What Can He Do With It?/The huge war chest is the most money retained by a departing New York politician in recent memory."

He cannot... use the funds to run for federal office or in New York City, where the campaign finance rules are more stringent.... He can also make political donations to candidates or to state and local party organizations and has the means to do so in many races.... And he is free to spend the money on anything that would be construed as campaign-related....

He could spend it on an effort at rehabilitating his image or even on travel, so long as the activities could be pegged in some way to his past government service or a future campaign for state office.... What is clear is that Mr. Cuomo could use the campaign funds to conduct polling or create political ads and test the waters for a comeback.

People driven out of Albany amid scandal or criminal investigation have often turned to their campaign coffers to cover legal fees, though campaign finance attorneys said there were limits to the practice....

And nothing requires Mr. Cuomo, who is 63, to spend the campaign money quickly. He is free to bide his time for as long as he would like....