I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd come home alive. I didn't think I would either, so I was happy when I did.

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

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Tone can be as important as text.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor.

Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life, and people do not wish to waste their lives once they've seen New York! This rural American thing - I'm telling you, it's a joke.