If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.

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

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.

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

Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life, and people do not wish to waste their lives once they've seen New York! This rural American thing - I'm telling you, it's a joke.

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

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.