When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone. It's a display of terrible intolerance.

Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.

I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.

The struggle for morality never stays won. It's always in process.

There will never be another Ed Koch. He was an original, but he represented a significant, if shrinking, segment of American Jewry who refused to compromise their liberal values, their support for Israel or their Jewish pride.

I love to play. I love, opera, hiking and museums. The one thing I don't do is sit. I have a tremendous amount of energy.

I read in the newspaper that the Catholic Church finally decided that it had been theologically improper to try to convert the Jews. Whoops! Sorry for all those inquisitions, crusades, and autos-da-fe. Previous popes were wrong - infallible, perhaps, but wrong.