The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.

Like many others, I'm deeply sympathetic to the huge numbers of people looking to come here today to escape suffering and poverty in their own lands. But as a country, we cannot afford to have a total open-door policy without any restrictions on entry.

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.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

I intend to vote for President George W. Bush in the next election, because in my view, he is best able to wage the war against international terrorism.

Many of the self-described "political refugees" who come here make stopovers in other countries on their way to the U.S., in places where they would be free to have as many children as they want. But they choose to continue on to the U.S. Why? Because it is more economically attractive.

I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.