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

I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.

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

Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.

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

[The UN should remain in New York] because every country needs a cesspool. And the UN is always interesting as a theater of the absurd.

If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.