I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows..

I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor..

Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit ….

...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….

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

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

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

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….

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

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

[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..

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….

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

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….

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

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

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.….

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

...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..