If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.

Be different-if you don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage.

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

I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.

I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!