Like many others, I'm deeply sympathetic to the huge numbers of people looking to come here today to escape suffering and poverty in their own lands. But as a country, we cannot afford to have a total open-door policy without any restrictions on entry.

But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?

There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

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

There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.

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