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

I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

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

Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.

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.

Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct no matter what others say. However, when you conclude you were in error, do not hesitate to announce the error publicly and change course.