I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.

Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!

Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct no matter what others say. However, when you conclude you were in error, do not hesitate to announce the error publicly and change course.

The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.

I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.