The people really are what make New York City great..

Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I lov….

. . .little has changed in our New York neighborhoods except the faces, the names, and the languages spoken. The same decent values of hard work and ….

Well, I'm not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I ….

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that w….

So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bai….

Race relations can be an appropriate issue... but only if you want to craft solutions, and not catalogue complaints. If we use the issue appropriatel….

I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where ….

Some of us claim that New York City is the capital of the country, indeed the capital of the world. Now, that may be a bit much for those who don't c….

I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs..

Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, ….

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then..

And, as a matter of fact, I am the chairman of the Amadou Diallo Foundation..

You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper you can be . . . And, you know ….

You can't twist Al Sharpton's arm..

And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet..

We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not….

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people..

There is no point in me worrying about what Bloomberg or Badillo will do..

Well, I think I am a very, very lucky person. I'm very fortunate..

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law..