The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.

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

I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

Young women should begin to build bone mass early in their lives. The more mass there is, the less they will lose in later life. They should enjoy a diet of calcium-rich foods and avoid food and drink that causes bone loss.

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

Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.