...the mayor should not be advancing a policy that encourages [illegal] immigrants to think of New York City as their safe haven.

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

The most guileful amongst the reporters are those who appear friendly and smile and seem to be supportive. They are the ones who will seek to gut you on every occasion.

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

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.

To learn something new every day is still exciting!