I can explain it to you, but I can't comprehend it for you.

There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.

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.

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

I wake up every morning and say to myself, Well, I'm still in New York. Thank you, God.

Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.

...what about the millions of poor in this country who desperately need assistance and services to help bring them out of poverty? Shall they go to the back of the line? and shall those who have made a dramatic illegal entry, who would normally not be entitled to government assistance, or even entry itself, be put at the front?