People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.

I'm really glad that our young people missed the Depression and missed the great big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They didn't tell us things were hard for us because we were different, or isolated, or special interests. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

One of the truths of our time is the hunger deep in people are over the planet for coming into relationship with each other.

One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.

I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.

Doctors are our partners, and they need all the assistance we can give them to be sure we get the right diagnosis.

You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.