You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.
Tone can be as important as text.
If I were running against Chuck Schumer. I would take every one of his Sunday press releases - and there are 52 for as many years as he's been there - and I would ask, 'How many of the things he said he was proposing became law?' I doubt many.
Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.
The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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.