Saving New York City from bankruptcy is like making love to a gorilla. You don't stop when you're tired; you stop when he's tired.

- Felix Rohatyn

The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jew…

- Felix Rohatyn

Fairness does not require the redistribution of wealth; it requires the creation of wealth, geared to an economy that can provide employment for ever…

- Felix Rohatyn

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

- Felix Rohatyn

A democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

- Felix Rohatyn

Financial hydrogen bombs built on personal computers by 26-year-olds with MBAs.

- Felix Rohatyn

I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.

- Felix Rohatyn

Beware of lawyers and consultants and people who do not take risks and who do not get their hands dirty.

- Felix Rohatyn

Hillary Brown understands that?for our grandchildren's sake?we must rebuild America and, in doing so, re-imagine our interconnected infrastructure sy…

- Felix Rohatyn