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

Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.

I want to come back as me.

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

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

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.

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