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.

Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry.

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

[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.

Unless they can immediately demonstrate a credible fear of persecution, why shouldn't these people be returned at once to the country from which they embarked - whether it be their home country or a stopover point - at the expense of the airline that brought them? All appeals would then be made from the country to which they have been returned.

I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.

It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized.