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 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.

We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.

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

I happen to believe that there is nothing wrong with homosexuality. It’s whatever God made you. It happens that I’m heterosexual, but I don’t care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don’t have the ability to protect their rights.

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

There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.