If I were running against Chuck Schumer. I would take every one of his Sunday press releases - and there are 52 for as many years as he's been there - and I would ask, 'How many of the things he said he was proposing became law?' I doubt many.

No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.

You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

I wake up every morning and say to myself, Well, I'm still in New York. Thank you, God.

Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.

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

I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.