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

Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!

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

I intend to vote for President George W. Bush in the next election, because in my view, he is best able to wage the war against international terrorism.

Unless they can immediately demonstrate a credible fear of persecution, why shouldn't these people be returned at once to the country from which they embarked - whether it be their home country or a stopover point - at the expense of the airline that brought them? All appeals would then be made from the country to which they have been returned.

[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.

I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.