I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.

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

Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.

[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.

I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd come home alive. I didn't think I would either, so I was happy when I did.

I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.

We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.