You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights..

I can explain it to you, but I can't comprehend it for you..

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag..

...the mayor should not be advancing a policy that encourages [illegal] immigrants to think of New York City as their safe haven..

Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry..

Be different-if you don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, y….

To learn something new every day is still exciting!.

I wake up every morning and say to myself, Well, I'm still in New York. Thank you, God..

The art of creation is older than the art of killing..

Don't tell me this is a difficult problem. If it weren't difficult, it wouldn't be a problem..

I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think fas….

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I ge….

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail..

I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them..

If I were running against Chuck Schumer. I would take every one of his Sunday press releases - and there are 52 for as many years as he's been there ….

If you agree with me on 9 out of 12 issues, vote for me. If you agree with me on 12 out of 12 issues, see a psychiatrist..

But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?.

Like many others, I'm deeply sympathetic to the huge numbers of people looking to come here today to escape suffering and poverty in their own lands.….

...what about the millions of poor in this country who desperately need assistance and services to help bring them out of poverty? Shall they go to t….

[The UN should remain in New York] because every country needs a cesspool. And the UN is always interesting as a theater of the absurd..

Tone can be as important as text..