I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs.

. . .little has changed in our New York neighborhoods except the faces, the names, and the languages spoken. The same decent values of hard work and accomplishment and service to city and nation still exist.

You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper you can be . . . And, you know you can be mayor.

But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.

Well, I'm not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we accomplished.

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.