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

Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct no matter what others say. However, when you conclude you were in error, do not hesitate to announce the error publicly and change course.

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

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

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child. But if we accept them as bona fide political refugees for that reason, doesn't it follow that people living in countries where abortion is illegal (such as Ireland and Poland) should also receive political asylum? After all, their country's policy is forcing them to give birth to unwanted children.

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