...what about the millions of poor in this country who desperately need assistance and services to help bring them out of poverty? Shall they go to the back of the line? and shall those who have made a dramatic illegal entry, who would normally not be entitled to government assistance, or even entry itself, be put at the front?

I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.

[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.

There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.

But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?

There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.

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.