Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.

We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.

Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.

[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.

Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.

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.

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