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

In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I'm proud of what I did. I built the foundation that mayors after me built upon - particularly Bloomberg. But the foundation was essential because if it hadn't occurred, we would have been another Detroit.

Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.

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

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.