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

When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.

Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.

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 intend to vote for President George W. Bush in the next election, because in my view, he is best able to wage the war against international terrorism.

I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.

If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.