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

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

Don't tell me this is a difficult problem. If it weren't difficult, it wouldn't be a problem.

I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.

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.

The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child. But if we accept them as bona fide political refugees for that reason, doesn't it follow that people living in countries where abortion is illegal (such as Ireland and Poland) should also receive political asylum? After all, their country's policy is forcing them to give birth to unwanted children.

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