If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

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.

When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I'm proud of what I did. I built the foundation that mayors after me built upon - particularly Bloomberg. But the foundation was essential because if it hadn't occurred, we would have been another Detroit.

You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

Don't tell me this is a difficult problem. If it weren't difficult, it wouldn't be a problem.

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

I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.