The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

To learn something new every day is still exciting!

I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor.

If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.

Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.