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.

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

I love kids and I maintain that they are our future, that we adults owe them the ability to achieve their potential and that we don't own this planet. We hold it in trust for them.

Well, I think I am a very, very lucky person. I'm very fortunate.

So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare.

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.

There is no point in me worrying about what Bloomberg or Badillo will do.