If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.

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

I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.

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

When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor.