Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.
The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.
I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.
The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
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.