I would have beaten Bloomberg like a rented mule.

For the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women I have met online.

New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker.

I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions.

I would have beaten Bloomberg like a rented mule.

Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved with very expensive military actions is a good investment. And frankly, helping Israel fight terrorism in the Middle East is much cheaper than us fighting it here on our shores.

For those of us who live in the shadow of this noisy monster, there aren't too many of us who are sorry to see it go.