We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.

There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.

Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.

Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct no matter what others say. However, when you conclude you were in error, do not hesitate to announce the error publicly and change course.

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.