But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?

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.

There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.

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.

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.

I wake up every morning and say to myself, Well, I'm still in New York. Thank you, God.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.