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

I happen to believe that there is nothing wrong with homosexuality. It’s whatever God made you. It happens that I’m heterosexual, but I don’t care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don’t have the ability to protect their rights.

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.

[The UN should remain in New York] because every country needs a cesspool. And the UN is always interesting as a theater of the absurd.

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.

I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.