It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized.

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.

It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized.

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

In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

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.